doze

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

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

He even seemed to doze off at one point in the middle of a presentation by Dr. Mehmet Oz, who runs Medicare and Medicaid, in the Oval Office.

From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2025

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 was starting to doze in front of the fire, the warmth and comfort conspiring to make her eyelids heavy, when the front door slammed.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

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

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

Upset, Arthur dozes off in the library and has a nightmare about Mrs. MacGrady’s workload — then awakens to find the civil rights leader sitting next to him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2020

Sergine Lucien dozes on an air mattress with her two children, Jayden and Phoenix, in Orlando on May 15.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 6, 2020

A scraggly man dozes fitfully on a stool at the apothecary.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

People dozed on station benches or sat on luggage on platforms as they waited for their trains.

From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026

Sophie dozed off and woke up about 07:00 and was immediately concerned about a lack of movement.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026

Through the night, several of them allegedly followed the southbound Brink’s truck, which was piloted by one driver while another dozed in the vehicle’s sleeping compartment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 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

Overhead, on the main floor, nothing stirred: the cows were resting, the horses dozed.

From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White

In his Hall of Fame acceptance speech, he reserved a special mention for a teacher at Wilson High in Long Beach, the one that envisioned a writer blossoming within a student dozing in class.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Jamie McGrath's vicious free-kick, Beni Banigime dozing and in rushed Boyle - cool and calm, a sidefoot to the solar plexus of the visitors.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026

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

They camped in a dry gully bordered by a tangle of shrubs, and took shifts dozing on the hard rock ground and keeping watch.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo