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