catnap

Example Sentences

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Some marine mammals sleep while swimming and some seabirds catnap while flying, letting one half of the brain doze while the other keeps working.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 27, 2021

You can even grab a quick catnap on your break.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2020

As a result, she has motored through the day on 40 minutes’ sleep, avoiding the temptation of a catnap.

From The Guardian • Mar. 8, 2020

“I was back in the mine,” she says of the catnap she was able to squeeze in between media interviews in her D.C. hotel room.

From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2015

She had meant to take an hour’s catnap and be up well before her pupils, but the Incorrigibles had risen much earlier than usual, as children are apt to do on any long-awaited holiday.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood