Nap

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"Nap" in a Sentence (21 examples)

I may give up soon and just nap instead.

I laid down for a short nap and fell asleep for two hours.

You may as well take a nap as read such a magazine.

Well, I watch television, take a nap, or take a walk in the park nearby.

I must have gone past the station while I was taking a nap.

"A spot of shut-eye" is also called a cat nap because a cat is in the habit of sleeping only a few minutes at a time.

My mother takes a nap every afternoon.

A few hours nap will do you good.

Feeling tired after his walk in the country, he took a nap.

Tired of reading, she took a nap.

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The regulators were caught napping by the financial collapse.

I took thee napping, unprepared.

I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new nap upon it.

On his long, gaunt body, he carried no spare flesh, no superfluous beard, his chin having a soft, economical nap to it, like the worn nap of his broad-brimmed hat.

There were low bookshelves, there was a thick pinkish Chinese rug in which a gopher could have spent a week without showing his nose above the nap.

THEY CALL IT the "nap of the Earth," that area from the ground to the level of surrounding trees and hills, the thin rug of foliage and rock folds at the Earth's skin line that has become all-important to the United States Army.

If incorporated in automatic guidance, this practical pursuit adjustment will enhance pilot acceptance of automatic guidance in following nap-of-the-earth profiles with precision.

If the fabric has a nap, make sure all pieces are cut with the nap going the same direction.

Instead of grinding the pistons straight around the axis, they are ground diagonally with a special-built machine. As a result, the “nap” of the metal is turned in such a way that, when it meets the “nap” of the cylinder wall, both surfaces quickly develop a high finish which removes the danger of scoring a piston.

4. Races run on English, Welsh or Scottish racecourses. This criterion was included so that media tipsters ^([sic]) nap selections in general could be analysed; the source of naps, The Racing Rag 'tipster table', summarises the nap selections of newspaper tipsters, who restrict their selection to horses running at racecourses in these countries.

Vanilla ice cream topped with a poached or canned pear half, napped with chocolate sauce, and garnished with toasted sliced almonds.

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