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Examples of snooze in a Sentence
Verb
snoozed through those long winter nights under a thick down comforter
she was just snoozing when she heard the knock at the door
Noun
took a snooze after lunch to refresh himself
man, that novel is a snooze—there's not one interesting character in it
Recent Examples on the Web
Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 28 June 2024
The Knicks snoozed their way through the majority of the game, then woke up to a Pistons team sniffing a rare win at Madison Square Garden.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2024
Dan Morrison, USA TODAY, 4 May 2024
Snoozing Impacts People Differently Young adults typically press snooze more often than older ones.
—Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Scientific American, 15 Nov. 2023
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Verb
That may result in someone unknowingly turning off and snoozing alarms when first woken up.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 28 June 2024
The Knicks snoozed their way through the majority of the game, then woke up to a Pistons team sniffing a rare win at Madison Square Garden.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2024
Noun
Not long into the first day of Donald Trump’s historic criminal hush money trial, observers saw the former president’s chin fall to his chest as, eyes closed, his mouth went slack in an impromptu snooze at the defense table.
—Dan Morrison, USA TODAY, 4 May 2024
Snoozing Impacts People Differently Young adults typically press snooze more often than older ones.
—Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Scientific American, 15 Nov. 2023
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“Snooze.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snooze. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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