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- verb Present participle of
doze .
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Examples
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When I drift away in dozing, will You softly light the candles
Catholic Tales and Christian Songs Dorothy Leigh 1918
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All the day she spent in dozing, praying, and speaking peace and comfort to her afflicted husband and children.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903
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Emissions do not usually occur during the soundest sleep, but during that condition which may be characterized as dozing, which is most often indulged in early in the morning after the soundest sleep is passed.
Plain Facts for Old and Young John Harvey Kellogg 1897
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Emissions do not usually occur during the soundest sleep, but during that condition which may be characterized as dozing, which is most often indulged early in the morning after the soundest sleep is passed.
Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life. 1877
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The morning was half spent in dozing slumbers, when Fleda heard a rush of footsteps, much lighter and sprightlier than good Mrs. Pritchard's, coming up the stairs, and pattering along the entry to her room, and, with little ceremony, in rushed Florence and Constance Evelyn.
Queechy 1854
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I recall dozing in and out of the program not really listening.
Archive 2006-07-01 E.Jim Shannon 2006
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I recall dozing in and out of the program not really listening.
E.Jim Shannon E.Jim Shannon 2006
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I recall dozing off to the sounds of Christmas songs coming from downstairs.
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PANERO: Again, you know we had just taken off and I was kind of dozing off and leaning upon my window.
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I was sort of -- actually, I was kind of dozing through the last hour of the flight, so I wasn't really too vigilant.
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