nodding off
Example Sentences
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The watchdog said exhaustion was also a risk to staff themselves with some complaining of nodding off at the wheel on the way home and reports of staff dying in road accidents after work.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2025
His wife nodding off in front of the TV news.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025
“The city that never sleeps versus the defendant who keeps nodding off during the trial.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2024
Won Young Lee, a behavioral ecologist at the Korea Polar Research Institute, was doing fieldwork in Antarctica in 2014 when he first noticed penguins nodding off.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 29, 2023
She could still hear the music and laughter from the Square, but it was more muted here, and she found herself nodding off.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
