Sentence examples for have a siesta from inspiring English sources

You start around 10am, stop at 2pm, have a siesta.

Let's have a siesta!" is not easily turned down.

"We used to have a siesta, to sleep all afternoon, to eat well," she said.

The striker Kiko, a former team-mate, recalls Simeone refusing to let the players have a siesta before one vital game because he simply could not understand how they could sleep.

"The United States of Europe is madness," he told Susie Mesure, "...they [the Germans] get up at six in the morning, and they work until eight in the evening, and these people in Greece fall out of bed at 11, go and play backgammon, drink a bit of coffee, go and have a siesta and then do an hour's work.

But in Spain, they have a siesta - it's about four hours sleeping in the afternoon.

She came home for lunch, and had a siesta.

And he was having a siesta when this person arrived.

There are no bruises, no blood: he could be having a siesta.

I had a siesta after dinner — a very long nap — up at 10. Worked till 3. Working through the night is the norm now!

We arrive on the quiet high street as most of the locals appear to be having a siesta, or lunch at traditional bistro Le Bouchon Gourmand.