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doze off
Idioms and Phrases
Fall into a light sleep, as in Watching the ballet always made her doze off . [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
These six podcasts offer respites for your brain, delivering tales that are diverting enough to keep you focused, but uneventful enough that you can doze off.
She was home at 9 p.m. and quickly dozed off, but within hours, she woke her mother up.
In that small snapshot, about 90 minutes or so, in a busy waiting room filled with patients listening out for their names to be called, in wheelchairs, in pain, dozing off.
But it wasn’t until closing statements, when many voters may have been dozing off, that she discussed her history as a prosecutor in California.
“When I tried to complain, I found the police officers dozing off with their guns in hand.â€
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