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
Maybe he could take a little rest, catnap like Mom did after dinner, before she started her hours of baking.
From "I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005" by Lauren Tarshis
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