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Siesta
"Siesta" in a Sentence (15 examples)
I'm going to have a siesta.
She didn't take a siesta.
Tom didn't take a siesta.
He's not going to take a siesta.
The word siesta comes from the Latin sexta, the time when the Romans rested.
Mary is having a siesta.
At four in the afternoon here, there's not a soul to be seen on the street. It's siesta time.
In Spain, the siesta is holy.
Do you still take a siesta every day?
Tell her I'm taking a siesta.
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One humid afternoon a visitor did arrive to disturb Rottcodd as he lay deeply hammocked, for his siesta was broken sharply by a rattling of the door handle […]
When it's time for siesta, you can watch them go by / Beautiful faces, no cares in this world
Lest we think all of this is due to the proverbial inefficiency of the Latin American - 'siesta people' - we can see some of these signs, perhaps in a less dramatic way, in European societies and in the celebrated 'tigers' of South East Asia.
I had eaten a simple lunch, and in the relaxed siesta attitude that pervaded the place I settled back in my chair and looked at the mountains behind in all their austerity.
Many observers believe the subtropical environment contributes to a slow-paced, siesta culture in which nothing work-related is so important that it cannot wait until tomorrow.
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