ภาษาอังกฤษวันละคำ : doze

The verb doze means to sleep for a short time, especially during the day. ...

• An Air India flight headed for Mumbai overshot its destination and was halfway to Goa before its dozing pilots were woken out of a deep slumber by air traffic control, a report said.

• You drive on the right in China, meaning that the front passenger in all of the right-hand-drive Toyotas weren't given the chance to doze off – they had the task of informing the driver when it is safe to overtake on a two-lane road.

• While others doze, Stevens says, he sits around in public spaces, waiting for unexpected opportunities.

• I had dozed off on the beach under cloudy skies, but then the sun sneakily came out for the first time in weeks and I got a bad burn. ...

(From Bangkok Post)