take a siesta
Example Sentences
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At lunchtime, when the heat is at its most ferocious, they take a siesta.
From The Guardian • Sep. 14, 2018
Much of the world, though, prefers to take a siesta.
From Economist • Feb. 25, 2010
"That's when my boys usually take a siesta," he said.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Pedrito had put some cane chairs and hammocks under a thatched roof, a place for workers to rest or take a siesta during the hot pan of the day.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
