Sentence examples for forty winks from inspiring English sources

Forty winks at a time.

IAN PARKER: forty to one on forty winks.

The door to Sister Penny's office was closed: she'd be catching forty winks on her couch.

"Got you a extra blanket I'll roll up out here and grab forty winks, ride out at first light".

UNTIL recently a good place to catch forty winks amid the din of Mexico City was in one of the country's somnolent legislative palaces.

On the bench I was free: I could read, eat, observe the world around me, sink into a pleasant reverie or even catch forty winks.

If you're a man and your voice might be a giveaway, remember it's one wink for no, two winks for yes.

WASHINGTON A crippling idiom shortage that has left millions of Americans struggling to express themselves spread like tugboat hens throughout the U.S. mainland Tuesday in an unparalleled lingual crisis that now has the entire country six winks short of an icicle.

Not one wink.

"The Victorian hoop skirt, the Gibson Girl coif, the plume hat slouching over one winking eye" -- these and every other part of Gypsy Rose Lee are examined afresh by Karen Abbott in "American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare Random Housese, $26).

Or twelve (wink).