napping
Example Sentences
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On a journey from the country's largest city Yangon to the capital Naypyidaw AFP journalists sat in air-conditioned carriages full of travellers napping and sharing tea, fried rice and instant noodles.
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026
Technically, I was exercising with the napping ladies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
One owl was found napping – in an antiques store.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026
During the staged wedding sequence, I saw myself in the tired child napping over two chairs, waiting for the adults to wind down the party so I could go home to my own bed.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2026
She drew Hannah’s slight figure closer against her, like a child’s, and presently the woman’s shuddering ceased, and Hannah drifted into the shallow napping of the very old.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
