siesta

How To Use siesta In A Sentence

• For creative individuals, the siesta proffers a gift basket of ideas with which to consume an hour or so, the least spirited of which, to put it delicately, is the nap. Good morning, Melaque: one day in a small Mexico beach town
• Spain is to move its clocks back one hour to be in time with Britain in a change that could sound the death knell for the siesta. Times, Sunday Times
• In some countries the great tradition of the afternoon siesta is under threat or has even been banned.
• While the Irish are sheltering from icy sheets of rain and the Poles are freezing their tootsies off, the Italians are drinking wine and lounging on the southern beaches and the Spaniards are having siestas in the sun.
• In addition, it is common for us to require afternoon siestas or cat naps of about an hour each day.
• I left Stone Town soon after lunch, just as the town's menfolk were heading back to their houses to take their afternoon siesta.
• When I opened my store I was determined that I would have afternoon siestas for about an hour each day.
• I went upstairs for my afternoon siesta.
• Villagers also enjoy a two-hour siesta each afternoon. The Sun
• “Kaylúlah,” mid-day sleep; called siesta from the sixth canonical hour. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night