How to Use snooze button in a Sentence

snooze button

noun
  • But she has been known to hit the snooze button once or twice.
    — Blake Bakkila, Good Housekeeping, 4 Sep. 2018
  • And a study looks at whether hitting the snooze button is bad for your sleep.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Just don’t hit the snooze button on these sales—they’re only around for a few more hours.
    — Jessica Kasparian, SELF, 17 July 2024
  • Then the Cowboys hit the snooze button on both sides of the ball.
    — cleveland, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Never used the snooze button, either, not once in my life.
    — Shafiq Najib, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Selma Blair is a big fan of hitting the snooze button.
    — Galina Espinoza, Flow Space, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Plus, its metal frame is durable enough to take any amount of pounding on your alarm clock’s snooze button.
    — CNN Underscored, 10 July 2020
  • Their lack of a snooze button is also great for people who tend to abuse that feature.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 8 May 2026
  • An offense still hitting the snooze button more often than not.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2023
  • Hit that snooze button, and your brain falls right back into a new dream cycle, experts say.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 19 July 2022
  • Using it as a snooze button to avoid the student loan restart could be a costly error.
    — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary of when the world woke from its latest hit of the snooze button.
    — Star Tribune, 25 May 2021
  • If that sounds too difficult, simply give up the snooze button instead.
    — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Maybe their internal body clocks hit the snooze button more than once then, given this was a rarity in a sense.
    — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 29 Nov. 2025
  • His analysis of perhaps the greatest health threat posed by climate change is a wake-up call with no snooze button.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
  • The app only allows users to snooze posts for up to a month, but the Post noted that users can hit that snooze button again.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 26 July 2022
  • Additionally, there’s no snooze button — just a button to turn the alarm off.
    — Camryn Rabideau, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Watch this 2-minute video to learn why hitting the snooze button for a few extra minutes of sleep causes more harm than good.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 9 June 2022
  • In the early part of this uneven season, the Flyers were the team that hit the snooze button a few too many times.
    — Sam Donnellon, Philly.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • What that means is picking the right time to actually get up and go versus hitting the snooze button over and over again.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2022
  • The 37-year old doesn’t even have the luxury of hitting the snooze button for a few extra minutes.
    — Lori Nickel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Ditch the snooze button and start your day with this gentle yoga alarm clock from Yoga Wake Up.
    — Good Housekeeping, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The United States and Europe have stopped hitting the snooze button.
    — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 18 Mar. 2020
  • The 49ers’ defense is strong enough to carry the team to victory even when the offense hits the snooze button.
    — Michael Lerseth, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The Blazers don’t have the luxury of hitting the snooze button, either.
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 5 Nov. 2019
  • At the start of the book, gaming titan Dodge Forthrast is punching the snooze button for nine more minutes of sleep.
    — Jim Kiest, ExpressNews.com, 5 June 2019
  • This is equivalent to hitting the snooze button every five to 10 minutes for a total of three or four times.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Scientific American, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Many used an alarm, even if just as a backup to hedge against oversleeping, but the idea of hitting the snooze button first thing was a complete no-no to them.
    — refinery29.com, 15 May 2018
  • Tessa Reed wakes up before sunrise on weekdays, long before most people even hit the snooze button for the first time.
    — Trey Williams, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2022
  • This clock is also great for those who have trouble waking up, since the alarm is pretty loud and there is no snooze button, though this may be a downside to some.
    — Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 18 Nov. 2022

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