DOZE in a Sentence

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69 example sentences for DOZE, such as:

1. Grandad was dozing in his chair.
2. She had a little doze after lunch.
3. Towards dusk she fell into a doze.
4. And then she fell into an uneasy doze.
5. Its hunger might sate, the lion dozed.

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 Meanings and Examples of DOZE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
doze
 v.  slumber; sleep lightly; be in dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; be drowsy
Classic Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1  Mr. McKee awoke from his doze and started in a daze toward the door.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  I lighted my fire, which burnt with a raw pale flare at that time of the morning, and fell into a doze before it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XL
3  When I half awoke from this uncomfortable doze, I found Peggotty and my mother both in tears, and both talking.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE
4  Towards morning Anna sank into a doze, sitting in her place, and when she waked it was daylight and the train was near Petersburg.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 30
5  I tried to keep awake, and succeeded for a while; but when the clock struck twelve it waked me from a doze, so I must have been falling asleep.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  Towards dusk she fell into a doze.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  Arthur had then fallen into a doze, and he mercifully let him sleep on.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  Perhaps my aunt would have given me a packet of High Toast for him and this present would have roused him from his stupefied doze.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE SISTERS
9  Once or twice she wondered if he were not gradually falling into a doze.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  The humming of the bees in the blossoms mingled with the chanting voice and drowsily melted into a doze.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  At last he was satisfied that time had ceased and eternity begun; he began to doze, in spite of himself; the clock chimed eleven, but he did not hear it.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  And then she fell into an uneasy doze.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  For some time, do all I would, I could not get into the faintest doze.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
14  Cassy busied herself with a French book; Emmeline, overcome with the exhaustion, fell into a doze, and slept some time.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
15  He did not contradict me; perhaps he had fallen into a doze.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence:
1  If I doze off and stop flipping the pages, the boy goes to sleep too.
2  She had a little doze after lunch.
3  She felt that she was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and saying to her very earnestly.
4  Grandad was dozing in his chair.
5  The film was so boring that I dozed off in the middle of it.
6  I closed my eyes for a minute and must have dozed off.
7  Its hunger might sate, the lion dozed.