snoozing

Example Sentences

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It was 8:30 a.m., and most of the ship’s 4,000 passengers were still snoozing or filling their plates at the breakfast buffet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Thirty years ago L.A. firefighters found children sleeping in closets and babies snoozing in dresser drawers.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

Semi-feral, Pebbles now prefers snoozing in the library to hunting, the university said.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2024

So, there I was, watching Keoghan as an Oxford student named Oliver become one with the soil, my mother snoozing beside me.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2024

Three days later, with an anguished groan, Herbie chopped his first snake in two: it had been curled up on his sleeping bag, happily snoozing in the glow of his bodily warmth, when he awoke.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols