Be less than vigilant

Usage examples of doze.

Front, three abreast, the man in the middle dozing, and all dreading the first sight of the Hanging Virgin of Albert because beyond her steeple lay the terrible valley of the Ancre and the hills above the Somme.

The transportees, sunk in wretched apathy, doze or stare about in the asphyxiating miasma.

She knew she did not bore him, and she buffed or painted her fingernails studiously while he dozed or brooded and the desultory warm afternoon breeze vibrated delicately on the surface of the beach.

I immediately pretended to fall asleep, but soon I dozed in good earnest, and only woke when they came to bed.

Lord Carberry opened his eyes from one of the dozes that overtook him continually.

We passed herds of dozing zebras, fitfully dreaming dinotheres, asleep-on-their-feet gazelles.

His eyes would only close when the droaning voice of some one reading aloud made his head dizzy, and then he would doze off for a short time.

At a corner of the bar, on a far bench, in the half light of the lanterns, a man sat with his back against the wall, his head flopped in drunkenness as he dozed.

Beckwith sat with his back to the rough lumber of one wall, dozing fitfully with Espe cradled in his arms.

Captain Flume had obtained this idea from Chief White Halfoat himself, who did tiptoe up to his cot one night as he was dozing off, to hiss portentously that one night when he, Captain Flume, was sound asleep he, Chief White Halfoat, was going to slit his throat open for him from ear to ear.

I climbed up on to a limb of the great gingko tree, but there was no secure perch on its rounded surface, and I should certainly have fallen off and broken my neck the moment I began to doze.

Sheep-dogs sprawled and dozed on the hearth, so that the gude wife complained of their being underfoot.

For most of a week I lay, accepting no company but that of Hylas, who was now grown so old that he spent his days dozing by the brazier, though when I was in the house he still insisted on following me from room to room.

In the Via Larga the country people were dozing in their carts as the donkeys and oxen clop-clopped over the stones with their produce for the Old Market.

Weariness compounded the incessant chill, hazing the mind toward dozing sleep and leaching away better judgment.