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How to use snooze in a sentence

12 example sentences · verb, noun

Snooze means to sleep, especially briefly; to nap, doze. Example: “The boss caught him snoozing at his desk.”

Examples of snooze by meaning

verbTo sleep, especially briefly; to nap, doze.

  • The boss caught him snoozing at his desk.

verbTo pause; to postpone for a short while.

  • It enables you to dismiss the reminder, dismiss all reminders, open the highlighted item in the Reminder dialog, and snooze the reminder.2003, Ken Slovak, Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, page 110
  • Let's say you want to see all your reminders, but you don't want it to be too easy to snooze the ones for important items.2007, Sue Mosher, Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming, page 359
  • To snooze the phone, press and release the power button.2011, Dan Gookin, Bill Loguidice, Motorola ATRIX For Dummies, page 40

nounA brief period of sleep; a nap.

  • The cat enjoys taking a snooze on a sunny windowsill.

nounSomething boring.

  • The whole movie was a snooze.

More sentences with snooze

  • She trusted me to scarve her shoulders, her creatures snoozed below our bed.2015, Alan Gould, “And We Had Hands”, in Geoff Page, editor, The Best Australian Poems 2015, Black Inc., →ISBN. From the entry scarve
  • When you sleep, your salivary glands take a bit of a snooze too.2010, Connie Colwell Miller, “How Spit Happens”, in The Slimy Book of Spit (The Amazingly Gross Human Body), Mankato, Minn.: Edge Books…. From the entry spit
  • Truthfully, I was kind of average until my life went from snooze to snazztastic in about sixty seconds.2007, Jane Mendle, Better Off Famous?. From the entry truthfully
  • We’ll have to prod our snoozing pewmates when to sit and stand; they’ll have to rein in their zealots.2007 July 29, Lawrence Downes, “The Pope Reopens a Portal to Eternity, via the 1950s”, in New York Times. From the entry pewmate
  • But lately, he'd been tossing about all day, too exhausted to get proper sleep, and only snoozed off toward the last hour.1977, Herman Spector, Bastard in the Ragged Suit. From the entry snooze off
  • The 1st time I woke up I hit the snooze button, the 2nd I got out of bed, the third time was in the back of an ambulance.1993 July 21, Henry O. Farad, “odd places to wake up”, in alt.peeves (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Nov 2025. From the entry amby

Meaning of snooze

  1. verb To sleep, especially briefly; to nap, doze.
  2. verb To pause; to postpone for a short while.
  3. noun A brief period of sleep; a nap.

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Questions about snooze in a sentence

How do you use snooze in a sentence?
Snooze is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The boss caught him snoozing at his desk.”
What is a short sentence with snooze?
“The whole movie was a snooze.”
What does snooze mean?
Snooze means to sleep, especially briefly; to nap, doze.

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