Sentence examples for long siesta from inspiring English sources

"Citi does take a long siesta".

I'd take a dip in the sea and after a light lunch and a long siesta, I'd read for a few hours before going out for supper.

Half Aztec mythology, half noirish thriller, Grim Fandango (working title, The Long Siesta) is one of the most bonkers, creative, hilarious, touching and unexpected games ever made.

After such a feast, one has little choice but to follow the still-honored, and welcome, custom of a long siesta.

At lunchtime, with the bazaar and the palaces closed for a long siesta, I took a walk by the river and was intrigued to see young Iranian couples canoodling - in theory, strictly forbidden.

Europe's long siesta, it seems, has finally reached its limit -- a victim of chronic economic stagnation, deteriorating public finances and competition from low-wage countries in the enlarged European Union and in Asia.

Still, things did eventually look up in the last scene: the plot finally got going after its hour-long siesta when a gunman in a Tony Blair mask took out Alvo.

During the long afternoon siesta, when the shops and restaurants close, you'll need a comfortable retreat.

Paris, Berlin and other busy metropolises have emptied out, as the natives indulge in an annual European rite: the long summer siesta.

In Vera, a tucked-away town in the southern Spanish region of Almería, the grocery stores and tapas bars are beginning to open their doors after the long afternoon siesta.

But now the principality's restaurant terraces are humming with late-night patrons, new paths through the hills are being beaten all the time, and Andorra is finally waking up from its long summertime siesta.