As far as the French were concerned she was jogging along under topsails only, with only half a dozen sleepy lookouts, the men at the wheel, a quartermaster and the officer of the deck on their feet and the rest of the watch probably snatching naps.

Vendors in the open-air markets stack their potatoes and peppers in neat piles on the ground and snatch naps in the shade.

When he was working out Universal Gravitation he had worked sixteen-, eighteen-, twenty-hour days for weeks on end, sleeping only when sleep became unavoidable, snatching brief naps and awakening ready and eager for work, with his mind still bubbling with the equations he had left unfinished a little while before.

The sailors eat freeze-dried rations and snatch two-hour naps.

I snatch naps like a panther watching beside the trail for a deer to come by.

Those long days of dodging through the tubes and snatching naps in cul-de-sacs took on new meaning.

In the daytime I snatched naps, learning to sleep anywhere, or at any time, and so lightly that the slightest unusual noise would awaken me.

Most of the men and women in the room with him had been keeping similar hours, snatching naps when they could on office sofas, or going home, only to be called back a few hours later by another twist in the ongoing crisis.