siesta

While it may not be realistic to have a siesta every day, you could try cooking some Spanish food, she suggested.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

“It looks like the siesta time of day,” said Carle, science director of the nonprofit Oikonos Ecosystem Knowledge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025

Animals go to their shelter, humans have a siesta, even plants have mechanisms to avoid an overdose of light.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 18, 2024

Partygoers use the promptu 'hose' showers set up by locals, or take dip in the nearby Buñol river, before enjoying a delicious Spanish meal and a well-deserved siesta!

From DOGO News ● Sep. 8, 2023

The doors of the house, wide open from dawn until bedtime, were closed during siesta time under the pretext that the sun heated up the bedrooms and in the end they were closed for good.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

These aren’t early-afternoon siestas or weekend catnaps; they’re something more unusual.

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2024

While some argue for a stricter definition of the phenomenon, others include naps, siestas, and brief nighttime forays as examples of modern segmented sleep patterns.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 4, 2024

People in Spain and Portugal should stop taking siestas and retiring early, leading German politicians and commentators repeatedly advised.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2022

He tired quickly, and admits now that he had “a couple of siestas a day.”

From New York Times ● May 14, 2021

While the others were taking their siestas she would practice the clavichord for two hours, knowing that the daily sacrifice would keep Fernanda calm.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez