nodding off
Example Sentences
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By the time we crossed into Arizona that first night, I was back in my roomette nodding off, lulled like a baby atop a washing machine.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025
Drowsy driving isn’t just the act of nodding off at the wheel.
From Slate • Nov. 26, 2025
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
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
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 "Glitch" by Laura Martin
