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.