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    Use "doze" in a sentence

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    1. Slowly, he begins to doze off


    2. The aftermath of exertion, in my depleted state, always took the form of a waking doze, during which the space created in my crowded head gradually filled up again


    3. I doze again, my face resting on the now sodden head rest


    4. ‘But you can doze until then


    5. just about to doze off with his neighbour when he was


    6. Watching the TV, but I think being doze, the


    7. He was about to settle down and doze off again, when it dawned on him that the fronts of her two HEPOs had both been fully unzipped


    8. The Dormouse had closed its eyes by this time, and was going off into a doze; but, on being pinched by the Hatter, it woke up again with a little shriek, and went on: ‘–that begins with an M, such as mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness– you know you say things are “much of a muchness”–did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?’


    9. He desperately wanted to just lie there and doze for another couple of hours but, although their journey was over, they now had to work on finding suitable supplies and getting them back to those still sheltering in the command section


    10. He seemed to doze for a while

    11. Because it was so early in the morning Dawn went back to bed, turning things over in her mind before finally dropping into a fitful doze


    12. After that, he leaned back in the back seat, seeming to doze off


    13. These things were already robbing her sleep at nights and causing her nightmares when she did manage to doze off


    14. pushing it in his Mommy’s face as she tried to doze


    15. I doze and yet the words in his letter continue to haunt me


    16. then before we know it, these centers of the brain cannot do without the daily doze of the substance


    17. When the greatest questions are debated its members have been seen to stretch themselves and to doze


    18. You feel the flickering of eyelashes on your chest when you start to doze off


    19. Jeff and Evan plonked themselves on the bed, waking us from a doze


    20. John, whose mind had developed a tendency to wander, snapped out of his doze and whispered,

    21. Momma would sometimes doze off during conversations in the front room


    22. Eventually she would doze and her mind would fill with happy thoughts of her new family who were so kind and thoughtful


    23. There was seldom an evening where he did not consume at least five and most evenings he would doze off lying in his lounger in front of the television


    24. When she did doze off, she was tormented by obscenely graphic nightmares


    25. Eventually I doze off with the television still on, which has already happened so many times before


    26. Siri sat silently, and the lion soon lost interest in him and lowered his head to doze once more


    27. Rory had started to doze, when the downward movement of the plane


    28. Ever time that you doze off there is this “alarm”


    29. The fire had her hypnotized and she found herself beginning to doze when Billy came out of the shower dressed only in a towel


    30. But as is the case in the animal world, never doze off or

    31. I have my breakfast at nine and then doze for two hours


    32. Marian was curled up on the sofa, trying hard not to doze off, while their parents chatted on


    33. On either side young glue sniffers gather, kids aged between three and nine, who doze off in the garbage, their eyes rolling without seeing, a dull emotionless smile on the lips, like any other addict


    34. He squeezed the ball thing in his hand, and eventually the pain went again, and he drifted off into another fitful doze


    35. His face was so sad I stopped thinking on it and fell into a doze


    36. The in-flight meal was served and then a quick doze, both being woken by an announcement from the flight deck that they were about to start there descent


    37. Holding on to that pleasant thought, he relaxed and managed to doze off


    38. out of his doze


    39. “I’m getting tired and I can’t stay awake much longer, they will be in here as soon as I doze off


    40. Later that evening Melvin sat at the bar trying not to doze off keeping an eye out for any “bad behavior” from the male customers

    41. To Silas’ relief, Crystal finally began to doze


    42. Tired from grading papers all day and trying to arrange a successful trip to the local raptor exhibit, he couldn’t help but begin to doze off


    43. He was just about to doze off when there was another rap on the door


    44. As we were both about to doze off listening to the soothing jazz


    45. As he started to doze into sleep he wished Rancor could be washed away that easily


    46. She would doze for a while and then wake again


    47. We spend most of the morning dozing and thinking (I choose to doze rather than think: it's less exhausting)


    48. After that I started to doze off to where I couldn't make out what Mr


    49. “I agree,” Hallen said, rousing from his momentary doze


    50. “Connie?” Jess asked, watching the cat close its eyes and start to doze on his pillow






































    1. I had dozed on and off for several hours but, an over-full bladder finally dragged me out of bed just after nine


    2. While sat on the loo, I had dozed gently before the realisation that the loo roll only had two sheets of paper left stirred what was left of my brain into action


    3. Down in the kitchen, Alessandra and Alexis were chatting over coffee while Mikri and Maska dozed by the door


    4. I must have dozed off for I wakened when Suzanne sat beside me in the swing


    5. Although he dozed occasionally, simply from boredom, he thought more frequently than he dozed


    6. Full of excellent food and entranced by this man’s company, she had dozed contentedly in the back of the cab


    7. As soon as one dozed off the other would wake and when she was calm


    8. He tried to sort his thoughts and must have dozed for when his head bobbed he was startled to see that the sky was already lightening


    9. mile, and dozed off, and the pages have been fluttered by a


    10. We tried to sleep or just dozed packed together like puppies in a litter leaning on each other or lying down across each others calves or thighs tired and bone weary from the journey

    11. ?' Like he hadn't dozed at all


    12. But how could she? But later in his house, when they had dozed by the fire, he hadn't slept as much as Rosemary - he was used to cat-naps - and had spent most of the time awake, just looking at her, sleeping, sitting back straight on the big old couch with the knitted shawl around her; the last thing his Mother had knitted, for she was renowned for her knitting, before she finally took to her bed; the wools, in the muted colours of bog earth and heather with light touches of soft blue, like the morning sky reflecting on pale cornflowers


    13. I undressed and climbed into bed not knowing when they would finish with Rosie I dozed for a bit then Helen came in and locked the door she looked worn out as she undressed and then she joined me in bed


    14. I must have dozed because when I awoke the sun was beginning to set but I was at peace and I knew I had fulfilled what my great grandfather had wanted me to do and that was to prove he was no coward but the proper fight would begin when I returned to Britain


    15. She closed her eyes and dozed in the warm sun


    16. that I must have dozed off for quite a while, and that I hadn’t even removed my overcoat


    17. I dozed in and out, sometimes clearly awake, and sometimes drowsy


    18. He shook his head and noticed that his best friend and Manna had dozed off in the intense heat


    19. Finally his heavy eyes overcame him and he reluctantly dozed off to sleep


    20. As the train sped along, rocking me back and forth in a hypnotic rhythm, I half dozed, only vaguely aware that Uncle Hobart was ordering something from the trolley service

    21. I must have dozed off, because the figure of a fierce pirate ap-


    22. She had repeatedly dozed off, but woken when her chin slid from the roost of her cupped hand


    23. At some point, he must have dozed off more soundly, because he was awakened by a combination of daylight pouring through the train carriage window and Pankovski’s prodding his shoulder, announcing loudly that they were in Krakow


    24. From where we sat in the outside living area or looked out through the windows, we could watch, as through framed in an ampitheatre, how Ikati explored, scratched his trees, dozed, or simply stared at the movements of birds and sunlight through the branches


    25. She cuddled against his body and dozed off


    26. I must have dozed, for when I awoke, the clock on the car’s electronic display read a few minutes to six, and in the distance I could make out what must be the Swiss Alps


    27. He dozed fitfully for a while


    28. I think I may have dozed a little on the sofa, but I’m not otherwise so tired


    29. He dozed for more than ninety minutes, and awoke to the bright sunlight of a clear tropical morning streaming through the window


    30. Once he dozed slightly then jumped up when heard Travers scream for help

    31. Lorna dozed off from sheer exhaustion, and when she awoke she saw that it was almost light and that the snow had stopped


    32. My cougar’s snoring was so reassuring that I actually dozed off myself


    33. There was a peace in it all as she dozed off


    34. dozed in and out of consciousness he heard other words


    35. Stanton had dozed off at his desk—his exhaustion had finally caught up with him


    36. While other passengers read or dozed I clung white knuckled to my seat as the train careered along none too even tracks at over a hundred miles an hour


    37. She dozed peacefully when a gloved hand


    38. It wasn’t there when I dozed off,” the halfling grumbled


    39. The dragonlings dozed, flapping gently in the air above the stone troll


    40. A lift brought us to the fourth floor private sitting room where Jeremy sat reading while his mother dozed in front of a gas fire

    41. dozed some more, a routine she would follow for another hour until


    42. Raccoons and badgers dozed under bushes at his feet as his toes grazed the surface of the earth


    43. I ate continuously, talked to keep my mother awake, and dozed off whenever it seemed safe


    44. He had not thought he had dozed, but a man was standing before him, a man he had not heard approach


    45. His mind drifted and as he dozed into some kind of sleep his memory recalled a day long, long ago


    46. Gomes drove south with Anna who cuddled close to him and dozed for a while


    47. I sat and dozed at the entrance and did not move when Blackfin stuck his head out once to hand me a blanket


    48. Chica could have dozed off any time, but was struggling to stay awake and enjoy the lovely stroking she was getting


    49. Danny dozed under the tree with her head


    50. I dozed off











































    1. Wally dozes off halfway through the film, a fact which Rose acknowledges with a fond smile


    2. / Quiet and happy, my son dozes


    1. Betsy was sitting outside, dozing uncomfortably on a plastic patio chair in the hallway


    2. It was just like traditional Sundays at home used to be with every shop closed at this early hour and every house dozing


    3. I spend a good bit of the next day stretched out by the ggs’ stable, dozing in the sunshine, while Berndt sits nearby reading


    4. Gradually, the waking moments outweigh the dozing ones and I decide that I ought to get up and try something solid


    5. Allcock was dozing in the upholstered leather chair


    6. They sit quietly, contemplating the night ahead, a night that will see Maggie twisting the duvet around her legs in her bed and Jock dozing uncomfortably in an armchair


    7. Dingle called him Adam, but here he was sitting against an old pear tree with a newly picked ripe apple in his hand and Rosecare dozing against his shoulder


    8. I rested, nestling Jesus in my arms, dozing


    9. They lay, content, dozing, wrapped in the warmth of each other’s embrace


    10. She remained content to spend most of her time indoors, but in her last few weeks, she often came outside with us, spending hours curled underneath a blue spruce behind the house or dozing at the edge of the woods

    11. They were soon dozing, hand in hand, some piece of what had kept them separate now broken through


    12. “Hank! Hank!” She shouted at her husband, dozing in his chair in the front room, with yesterday’s and this morning’s papers scattered around on the floor beside him


    13. She sat quietly, dozing with the bouncing motion of the truck and the pervasive heat


    14. Even while dozing, I was aware of his caring, undemanding presence


    15. We were both too tired to talk about following through with our plan, and I found myself dozing in the comfortable seat


    16. I’m dozing in bed when he sneaks into the room and kisses the top of my head


    17. “Sir,” Peters runs over to Robinson who is dozing off in the chair


    18. It looked as if he was reading his astronomy book, but he was dozing off


    19. The men took turns dozing


    20. He was close to dozing off when the house door alarm began

    21. was impressed by the smiling, alert face in the otherwise disinterested sea of dozing


    22. After patching up Sorus and dozing on the soft silk bedding of the guests’ quarters for a few hours, she was gently awoken by Cedar, Tamar’s House Master, he had returned from one of his many tasks


    23. dozing when his weight sagged heavily against the mattress, the


    24. with intermittent dozing blighted by terrible dreams that left her


    25. Rhythmic car horn honks wakes you from dozing in the spacious backseat of the SUV


    26. Glaze was dozing on a divan in front of a large window with a view up the coast to Fraser Island


    27. nothing productive can come up from half dozing mind and it is not a real rest for that matter, but that


    28. Most of the soldiers were dozing


    29. Gomes heard the explosion in the distance and sat up in his chair where he had been dozing


    30. Before long I found myself dozing off when a shout from someone outside the station made me sit up and open his eyes

    31. They were standing on the trees hipshot, dozing and swishing their tails idly at the flies


    32. Chica snuggled comfortably in Pedro's lap and was almost dozing off when Pedro shifted, jostling her


    33. or at least dozing on the couch in front of the TV, until I was home


    34. He looked at Cody who was dozing off


    35. In fact, he often kept dozing off, and had to be kept awake by shoves on his shoulder by his Yelkai


    36. Ambrosius left the two shipmates dozing intoxicated face down on the table, each with one hand still clutching a half-full cup


    37. There was still so much time left for the sun to come out that José Arcadio Buendía was still dozing under the shelter of palm fronds that had been rotted by the rain


    38. dozing off!" shouted another creep


    39. I’d been dozing and having that dream again


    40. kill, a dozing puff adder, bitten, by luck or fate, through the back of its thick neck, the

    41. Dozing for a while before she had to leave for work, she considered Dean Wilson, his odd behavior and the seal on his flat door


    42. Which one is it he asked himself although he had been assured of the answer as recently as now, by Eileen Cauldron? The dead man might easily have been dozing, or partaking of an afternoon nap


    43. Across the aisle Clegg was dozing not concerned with the thought of exposure and was relaxed in his new identity


    44. Rudolph snapped to attention and realised he had been dozing in his chair


    45. He dragged the dozing lump out of view, stuffing him under the bed after


    46. She would make her escape in the wee small hours when the guards were dozing


    47. offices a detective with his arm in a cast, sat dozing


    48. frequency ranges that he monitored, without permission, just to prevent himself from dozing


    49. He was dozing off again, in spite of the noise outside from the jet fighters and helicopters based there, when there was a sudden bustle of activity in the small ward


    50. Jaxon, who had been half dozing in his saddle, suddenly jumped









































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    Synonyms for "doze"

    doze drowse snooze slumber nap drop off

    "doze" definitions

    a light fitful sleep


    sleep lightly or for a short period of time