How to Use doze in a Sentence

doze

verb

• The Fenway fans, dozed by the heat and the length of the game, rose and cheered him on.
  — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
• Sasha dozed through the interview and Michelle got the job.
  — Jodi Kantor, Redbook, 21 Dec. 2011
• For bats of at least one species, the sound of traffic is easy to doze through.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2014
• The risks of sleep loss are far greater than dozing off in math class.
  — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• Some sit and watch, others read and eat, and a few even doze off.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 4 June 2019
• Then, even with the first-team unit still on the field late in the game, the Cougars dozed off for the final 30 minutes.
  — Joseph Duarte, Houston Chronicle, 8 Sep. 2019
• The bright light of a Rite Aid pharmacy shines next to the pair dozing in the shadows.
  — NBC News, 2 Feb. 2020
• The male passenger remained in the truck with his pet goat and dozed off.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 3 Jan. 2020
• Their dog, Ginger, a Tibetan spaniel, dozed by the back door.
  — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
• So take a break from dozing in the hammock to check out these must-try bites and sips of the summer.
  — Michele Parente, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 June 2017
• So take a break from dozing in the hammock to check out these must-try things for the summer.
  — Pacific, Pacific San Diego Magazine, 15 June 2017
• He was caught dozing off on the bench by TV cameras late in the fourth quarter.
  — Vince Ellis, Detroit Free Press, 14 Jan. 2020
• The family has been watching the baby doze around the clock.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2020
• Then the researchers put the platform back, allowing the fur seals to doze out of the water again.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 7 June 2018
• The narrator dozes in the front seat of the car and wakes to find a blackbird hopping toward her.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2019
• Giroux scored his first playoff goal in 12 games near the end of the first period, which woke the dozing Penguins for the rest of the evening.
  — Marcus Hayes, Philly.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• The hypnotic glow of the TV and the morphine drip caused my mom to doze off while facing the television.
  — Josh Roiland, Longreads, 1 Jan. 1950
• At the end of the episode, 86-year-old Betty dozed in the backseat as her granddaughter drove her through Riverdale one last time.
  — Kelly Martinez, Peoplemag, 24 Aug. 2023
• Feel like pushing away from your desk to doze off in a Brazilian rain forest?
  — Eric Scott, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2018
• Sometimes Raffi dozes off after his milk, or just takes a while to drink it.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2019
• There was a man with a trash bag filled with cans, and another man dozing next to a pizza box.
  — Written By Annie Correal; Photographs By Benjamin Norman, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2018
• Jaylen, who like her Papi is not a morning person, is dozing off in the back seat.
  — Kent Babb, chicagotribune.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• This is why Hitler rose to power, because the people were dozing.
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2017
• This helped them doze off without feeling the need to toss and turn to find a more suitable position.
  — Samantha Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Feb. 2023
• Children lie on their bellies and stare at the dozing brown bodies.
  — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Each villa also comes with a retractable roof, so kids can doze off beneath the stars.
  — Kris Fordham, CNN, 13 June 2021
• For him, dozing off on a warm lap sounds like the perfect way to spend a summer afternoon.
  — idahostatesman, 27 June 2017
• That’s heady stuff for a shy sort who visualizes races by the hour in an attempt to doze off the night before big races.
  — Joe Davidson, sacbee.com, 10 June 2017
• In one, Amora dozes peacefully while swaddled in a brown blanket on top of a nest of other brown-toned fabrics.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 6 Jan. 2024
• In one canvas, a woman dozes peacefully on a couch; in another, two women linger in a lush garden.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024