Sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)
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Examples for "nap "
Examples for "nap "
1 I can believe it; I needed a nap after reading 40 pages.
2 However, this nap and the following ones were not influenced by endotoxin.
3 If it's a boulder problem, go take a nap in the forest.
4 No, the longer Opals nap lasted, the better for everyone, especially her.
5 He confronted Del that evening, after he had taken a long nap .
1 If you want a good snooze watch the film version of Watchmen.
2 Alarm lets you set multiple wake times and offers a snooze function.
3 Rather than calling the Garda, you snooze on until you arrive home.
4 You see, I had quite a snooze up there in the air.
5 I cannot sleep in the mornings; I cannot snooze peacefully until midday.
1 Cats slept anywhere and everywhere; it was the nature of the beast.
2 A cat sleeps beside a geranium in the cafe window.
3 The gray cat slept on the arm of the sofa.
4 She looked at the multicolored alley cat sleeping at the foot of her bed.
5 I read somewhere that cats sleep about sixteen hours a day, two-thirds of their lives.
1 It usually comes when she is taking what she calls forty winks .
2 Later, maybe, when I've had my grog, I'll take my forty winks -
3 Run away, and think of me as enjoying my forty winks .
4 Take forty winks , you poor child, it will freshen you up.
5 What the hell were you doing back there, catching forty winks ?
1 Recent human studies reveal a widespread association between short sleep and obesity.
2 We hypothesized that short sleep duration was associated with an increased CIMT.
3 Depression rates were highest among interns with both sleep disturbance and short sleep .
4 Previous research has found an association between being overweight and short sleep duration.
5 He found the captain had just awoke from a short sleep .
1 As he recalled, Molly could revive pretty quickly after even a brief catnap .
2 He wondered, as he had before, whether the old man was taking a catnap .
3 Around 6 PM, I decided to take a catnap and fell asleep across the bed.
4 I won't mind if you catnap for a while.
5 While Walter took a catnap , I went downstairs.
6 After a cup of coffee and Danish, I was ready for a shower and a catnap .
7 Seems like he took a catnap every night.
8 He surely couldn't catnap under his seat.
9 I was debating a catnap on the couch when a folder on Chance's desk caught my eye.
10 Two minutes before the global apocalypse started, Stone woke from a catnap and refocused on the TV screen.
11 Better take a catnap , he said.
12 Erica had slept a deep and dreamless sleep, but still felt as though she'd barely had a catnap .
13 I was only taking a catnap .
14 I could catnap every 10 minutes for about 8 minutes while waiting for Wayne.
15 He had trained himself to catnap in his office for tenor twenty-minute periods, after which he felt remarkably refreshed.
16 That was the time I was taking to study some diagrams I'd made, but instead took an involuntary catnap .
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