nod off

Example Sentences

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The only others in the car were the conductor, a couple sitting very close, and an old man nodding off.

From Literature

Rolling to the side, I tucked my arm under my head and was just nodding off to sleep when my fingertips brushed against a thick piece of paper someone had tucked under my pillow.

From Literature

Sam A. Davis didn’t exactly love Ivan Turgenev’s short story “The Singers,” at first — “honestly, I nodded off a couple times,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times

Mosquitoes found me again as I nodded off too, but their whining could not keep me awake this time.

From Literature

Apparently, according to some reporters in the room, even members of his staff briefly nodded off.

From Salon