doze lightly
Frequency: 7.010.5 per million words
to sleep but not deeply
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Examples (10)
- I tend to doze lightly on long flights, waking at every sound.
- The baby would doze lightly in her mother's arms, stirring occasionally.
- He began to doze lightly in the warm afternoon sun.
- She could only doze lightly because of the noise from the street.
- The cat would doze lightly by the window, ears still alert.
- During the lecture, several students started to doze lightly.
- I always doze lightly when I'm not in my own bed.
- The elderly man would doze lightly in his favorite chair each evening.
- She learned to doze lightly while on night duty at the hospital.
- The dog would doze lightly near the door, ready to wake if anyone approached.