verb
definition
To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.
example
I didn’t sleep very well, but I think I may have dozed a bit.
definition
To make dull; to stupefy.
definition
To bulldoze.
Examples of dozed in a Sentence
She closed her eyes and dozed in the warm sun.
Eventually, she dozed off.
Yully dozed twice and forced herself up.
He sat down, sank into thought, closed his eyes, and dozed off.
In spite of good intentions, he must have dozed as he woke to the sound of someone on the stairs.
She dozed and awoke to the sound of something bumping her door.
At some point she dozed, and when she lifted her head, he was asleep, his head cradled on one arm as he slumped over the table.
Troubled, she dozed, waking when she heard the knock at her door.
I was guarding you while you dozed.
Each time she dozed off, she thought something was crawling on her bedroll.
Several times his head dropped low as if it were falling and he dozed off.
I peacefully dozed off, with that thought spinning around in my confused mind.
More jet noise from an RAF jaguar with full burner woke anyone who had dozed off.
He dozed off earlier, but woke up with a start when a man in bright striped pants sat down next to him.
Toward dawn, Count Orlov-Denisov, who had dozed off, was awakened by a deserter from the French army being brought to him.
In Smolensk, at the Malakhov Gate, he had hardly dozed off in a paroxysm of fever before he was awakened by the bombardment of the town--and Smolensk held out all day long.
Death was waiting for Gabriel when he dozed off. He'd planned on staying awake and moving so she wouldn't catch up to them, but even he needed a short nap after three straight days of grueling travel in the underworld.
He again recalled all the details of the victory and his own calm courage during the battle, and feeling reassured he dozed off....
One day he would order his camp bed to be set up in the glass gallery, another day he remained on the couch or on the lounge chair in the drawing room and dozed there without undressing, while--instead of Mademoiselle Bourienne--a serf boy read to him.
Carmen dozed in the chair a few times off and on until about midnight.
I lay awake for hours until I finally dozed, dreaming of space ships and aliens with toupees.
She dozed in the car during the forty-five-minute drive into northern Virginia, where her sister's fiancé owned a mansion secreted behind towering shrubbery and a gate that swung open to welcome her.
Bianca was gone, and the horse dozed next to the fence.
She dozed as she drew, caught herself twice, then dropped into sleep, unaware that those who removed the boxes were coming next for her.