snooze
verb (used without object)
have snoozed
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present perfectof snooze.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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My Dearest Papa,—We are stopping now in the quaintest little place, a veritable Sleepy Hollow, like its name, where Rip Van Winkle might have snoozed away for centuries without fear of being disturbed.
From A Princess in Calico by Edith Ferguson Black
I must have snoozed; yet, I caught the gabble.
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
At the British Museum the desert snail might have snoozed away his inglorious existence unsuspected, but for a happy accident which attracted public attention to his remarkable case in a most extraordinary manner.
From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Grant Allen
