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doze off

verb as in drop off

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When she did doze off, Dame Jacqueline said she wanted to sleep too but used the short window available to write.

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These six podcasts offer respites for your brain, delivering tales that are diverting enough to keep you focused, but uneventful enough that you can doze off.

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She was home at 9 p.m. and quickly dozed off, but within hours, she woke her mother up.

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In that small snapshot, about 90 minutes or so, in a busy waiting room filled with patients listening out for their names to be called, in wheelchairs, in pain, dozing off.

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But it wasn’t until closing statements, when many voters may have been dozing off, that she discussed her history as a prosecutor in California.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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