Verbsnoozed 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
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Some people doom scroll before finally dragging themselves out of bed, while others snooze their alarm.—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025 At the Snow Mountain Ranch at the YMCA in Winter Park, Colorado, your family can snooze the night away in a yurt featuring one queen bed and two sets of bunk beds, accommodating up to six people.—Lynn O'Rourke Hayes, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
The canine looked to be taking the blanket along with him, to ensure that his following snooze would be as comfortable as possible.—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025 In a small and plainly shot movie that spends most of its time on Gaslighting 101, sublimates its true premise into the stuff of a late reveal, and whose only sequence of genre-forward suspense is a predictable snooze, such rare moments of real texture stand out all too much.—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for snooze
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