nodding off
Example Sentences
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Drowsy driving isn’t just the act of nodding off at the wheel.
From Slate • Nov. 26, 2025
The watchdog said exhaustion was also a risk to staff themselves with some complaining of nodding off at the wheel on the way home and reports of staff dying in road accidents after work.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2025
Won Young Lee, a behavioral ecologist at the Korea Polar Research Institute, was doing fieldwork in Antarctica in 2014 when he first noticed penguins nodding off.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 29, 2023
The last thing he remembered before nodding off, according to the report, was getting on the freeway from State Route 91.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2023
At the moment, however, Penelope’s only wish was to wrestle herself out of that absurd outfit and into her own plain flannel nightdress before nodding off.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
