siesta

How to use siesta in a sentence

Some cultures, of course, do embrace the afternoon nap, or siesta.

During the week, most meals are taken at home, including midday lunch, when many businesses shut down, and might be followed by a siesta.

When we reached the hotel everybody went in to take a siesta—that "Mittags-Schlaf" which is law in Germany.

They dined, therefore, in silence, and afterwards he laid himself down as usual on the sofa for a siesta.

SKIPPER WORSEALEXANDER LANGE KIELLAND

The session lasted until time for the noonday luncheon and siesta , and was resumed in the afternoon.

We happened to reach it when the prisoners were having a siesta.

Is there no sombra where we can eat our lunch and take a siesta?

MEXICOCHARLES REGINALD ENOCK

Political dignity transfigured the village out of its buckskin and bowie-knife existence, into a leisurely civic siesta.

MOUNTAINCLEMENT WOOD

It was one of those still afternoons in summer when nature seems to be taking a siesta.

UNVEILING A PARALLELALICE ILGENFRITZ JONES AND ELLA MARCHANT

The big canes on the further side hold numberless tortoises, we are told, but see none, for just now they prefer taking a siesta.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985