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How to use dozing in a sentence

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Off-gassing, the day before flying home, I lie dozing on a sunbed on the beach.
I was dozing happily this morning when I became conscious of four little paws pounding up the stairs at what sounded like forty miles per hour.
It's been a day for idleness, for loafing about, for lounging, dozing, snacking and dozing some more.
So, this August, I decided that I needed some justification for playing, dozing, gazing, ambling and goofing off without guilt.
They spent the rest of the day in idle talk and dozing off when their exhaustion caught up to them.
So, whether you're in the mood for dozing off, or feel like punching your name in drywall, there's a tune suitable for every temperament.
Several police officers sat dozing, lightly interspersed amongst the scuffed and beaten seats.
We are not talking about the hordes of migrant workers dozing off in the gutters on sweltering street corners, but about the ubiquitous parasol.
It's a muggy afternoon here, a rare thing in this part of the country, so I found myself dozing off.
After finishing the heap of homework I had, I let myself fall into bed, dozing off the moment my head hit the soft feathered pillow.
One afternoon in 1999, I was dozing when I heard my maternal grandmother calling me.
I stayed with her until she fell asleep but at that point, I ended up dozing off as well.
Finally feeling safe enough to rest his eyes, Specter let his head fall back onto his pillow and he found himself dozing off.
Kayley was dozing when the flap of the tent rustled lightly as someone entered her tent.
The idea of a car automatically detecting that the driver is dozing off is astonishing.
So they haven't been dozing off for long snoozes, but you have actually seen people fall momentarily asleep?
So if nothing else, endorsing candidates from the pulpit might rouse the dozing parishioner.
He sat there for several hours, dozing, snoring, and swatting at flies that settled on him.
Even when I'm dozing, I'm usually aware of crew members occasionally strolling down the aisle, but ages go by without a single hostie appearing.
Currently, police spend much of the time on a stakeout engaged in idle conversation, eating fattening foods and dozing off.
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Examples from Classical Literature
This yelp, sounding above the somniferous monotone of grumbling, stirred Cap'n Sproul from his dozing.
An ancient watchman was dozing in a sort of sentry box, but he did not wake.
Dr. Bramwell tells me that the best time is on first waking in the morning, before dozing off again.
I was invited into the tent, where I found the General had been lounging or dozing on his camp bed.
Just as he was dozing off, he remembered that his viva voce at Oxford was due some time this week.
On the sheepskin rug before the fire a manx cat was dozing beside a pair of carpet slippers.
Thaneford, with his telephoto lens, sees that Graeme is dozing in his chair.
He was in his stocking feet and had been dozing and smoking his pipe at intervals.
To whom, likewise, the shadows of the night revealed themselves, in the forms their dozing eyes and wandering thoughts suggested.
On one occasion he was dozing by the canal when a man tried to pinch his gold watch chain.
The dame, according to her idle custom, was dozing in a fauteuil.
The man gazed past him at the fixit cart and the two dozing horses.
Tucked away in the corner of its little bay, which an accommodating island converts into a still lagoon, Millbourne lies dozing.
The few loungers, smoking, but silent, seemed dozing the noontide away.
The slaves sat round an overseer who shook the dozing and nudged the slow.
Now dozing, now tossing about in wretchedness, she lay till the afternoon.
Mom, dozing in the big chair near the fireplace, padded upstairs at nine.
He had seen at once that redtail was dozing and hadn't seen him at all.
I was just dozing off into slumberland when I heard a noise approaching.
Only Nao's father was in sight, and he sat dozing over his hookah.
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