Used in a Sentence

dozing

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for dozing.

Editorial note

Sometimes dozing off for 20 minutes after lunch feels like a whole night of sleep to me.

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Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A light sleep.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of dozing gathered in one view.

noun

A light sleep.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dozing.

Example sentences

1

Sometimes dozing off for 20 minutes after lunch feels like a whole night of sleep to me.

2

The main argument against the shift was that camel trains often drove through the night while their drivers were dozing.

3

Also, birds could be 'long flight' dozing while flying in formation and are NOT looking up.

4

The contact protectors add collision-noise and vibration, which are rare enough that even a dozing/road-hypnotized driver is likely to take note.

5

It also doesn't seem to happen if I'm dozing off in a room that happens to be stuffy.

6

You'll find it harder to do, with yourself dozing off or blinking/blacking out occasionally.

7

Closed private offices enable people to slack at work and pretend to work 80h week while actually dozing off most of the day.

8

No use; the dozing and snoring in plain view of everyone else continued.

9

He was dozing on his living room couch when the banging started.

10

Frequent dozing, microsleeps, like you're experiencing, even after a full nights sleep, are indicative that there is an issue here worth investigating.

11

I was half-dozing on a Southwestern flight when a stewardess came on the PA system calling for any physician to identify themselves.

12

(along with $175, actually) We always keep one in our living room, handy for occasional dozing on the couch.

Quote examples

1

"...or the actual flesh-and-blood hairless apes who are dozing off in the seminar room while you speak." Wow.

2

Most into tutorials start "this is an int, this is a char, this is a variable, etc." Before you even get to anything interesting you are already dozing off.

3

(Any more and you run the risk of dozing off.) I couldn't find examples of "abuse of software and networks", though.

4

And while they're both, in some sense, mental states of "no thought", they are also worlds apart: the meditative state is a state of high focus, while the dozing/blinked state is pretty much the opposite.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use dozing in a sentence?

Sometimes dozing off for 20 minutes after lunch feels like a whole night of sleep to me.

What does dozing mean?

A light sleep.

What part of speech is dozing?

dozing is commonly used as noun.