beauty sleep

NOUN

deep restful sleep

Synonyms

WEAK

extra sleep forty winks full night's sleep nap rest siesta sleep before midnight snooze

Example Sentences

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All the while, Pippi savored her beauty sleep, and Palacios contemplated grabbing a contingency ladder to retrieve her.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2025

But, she said, she had had to step down "to catch up on a much needed decade's deficit of beauty sleep".

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2022

"Get at least eight hours of beauty sleep, nine if you’re ugly," she said in 2011.

From Fox News • Dec. 12, 2021

Because of this, the whole world was waiting on the edge of its seat for a result while Nevada got some beauty sleep.

From The Guardian • Dec. 28, 2020

Maybe a few pretties were actually getting their beauty sleep.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld