"long" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He had been fishing with Tetahiti the day before, and a long siesta in the afternoon had left him with no desire to sleep.
- I need food and drink and a long siesta before the fighting starts, or I'll yawn when I should parry.
- Debate was leisurely as the river slipped by, punctuated by long siestas and the occasional sighting of sloths.
- Behave like the locals and have a long siesta.
- It would be so easy to just lay down on the floor and take a nice long siesta.
- The owl, on the other hand, was for sleeping at mid-day, and lost a great deal of time by his long siestas.
- It might, of course, account for the doctor's long siesta this morning and for his confused condition when he answered my knock.
- Sunday lunch was typically a cold sandwich and a glass of wine on a side porch, followed by a long siesta.
- Then another, stretching as if waking up from a long siesta.
- Businesses and small shops generally close around 12.30pm for long siestas and re-open around 3pm.
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