forty winks

Example Sentences

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We probably all know about counting sheep, or letting sleeping dogs lie, but the facts about forty winks in the animal kingdom are still subject to debate.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2014

Then I managed to get forty winks or so of sleep around sunrise.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

I’ll take forty winks here until she’s ready.”

From The Moonlit Way by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

The fact is, the day is warm and she is sleepy, and she knows she will not get her forty winks unless he takes himself out of the way.

From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)

From every doorway the crowds hurried forth after dinner, scorning the sacred forty winks.

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton