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
His wife nodding off in front of the TV news.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 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
Its most evident manifestation seemed innocuous enough: Woolf was prone to nodding off.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
