doze
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In a blaring nightclub in wartime Myanmar, partied-out revellers doze until dawn by the dancefloor, wary of journeying home despite the end of a post-coup curfew.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
They took naps on Sunday to make sure they didn’t doze off.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
As her rivals nervously shuffle in their boots, Shiffrin will clear space on the ground, fold a parka as a pillow, shut her blue eyes and doze off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
When she did doze off, Dame Jacqueline said she wanted to sleep too but used the short window available to write.
From BBC ● May 30, 2025
She tumbled away into a doze, and was woken by the drone of a man’s voice in the nursery, and children answering.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
She struggles to fall asleep, her father said, and often asks him to stay by her side while she dozes off.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2024
Footage released on Tuesday shows police officers conferring on how to arrest the suspect as he apparently dozes in a car with a running engine.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2023
Suspended in midair inside a stylish L.A. apartment, a Black man dozes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2021
Food and sleep will be put aside, except when someone dozes off in a seat or on a colleague’s shoulder.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
I’m not sure who dozes off first, but when I wake up again, the morning sunlight is streaming through the small basement windows.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
"As suddenly as you began, you stopped, your anger evaporated, and then you dozed off."
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
People dozed on station benches or sat on luggage on platforms as they waited for their trains.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
Teenagers and street dogs dozed in the sun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025
She was home at 9 p.m. and quickly dozed off, but within hours, she woke her mother up.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2024
Grandmother closed her eyes and this time really dozed off.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
He can often be seen sunning himself on the dock, with other sea lions dozing or barking away nearby.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
Jurrien Timber played the ball into Gyokeres and Tottenham's dozing defence granted him acres of space on the edge of the area to turn and blast an unstoppable shot past Guglielmo Vicario.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
He’s been dozing off in meetings, which led Dick Cheney’s doctor to call for a medical evaluation.
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2026
Despite some low marks in her final years of high school, she’s unworried and unhurried, content to spend her days gazing at the water or dozing on the beach.
From Salon ● May 2, 2025
Claire strokes my forehead, dozing, the slant of light through my panes growing golden, then dim, the afternoon passing.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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