siesta

Example Sentences

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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

By donating money, people can trigger loud noises, alerts, flicker lights, or make things happen in a room to disturb the streamer from their siesta.

From BBC • Aug. 19, 2023

Worried about being stereotyped as a sleepy, lazy country, Spain pledged to abolish the siesta to increase productivity.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2023

Until puberty Fernanda had no news of the world except for the melancholy piano lessons taken in some neighboring house by someone who for years and years had the drive not to take a siesta.

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