bathroom break

noun

: a brief pause in or stoppage of an activity for people to use a bathroom

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The film’s three-and-a-half-hour runtime includes a 15-minute onscreen intermission, allowing for the audience to stretch their legs, take a bathroom break — or check their phones — midway through. Kristen Tauer, WWD, 19 Dec. 2024 What hospital administrators don’t understand, especially when units are so short staffed, is that most nurses barely get a bathroom break, let alone two, 15-minute breaks and an uninterrupted 30-minute lunch break. Tracy Briggs, Hartford Courant, 10 Nov. 2024 While on the bathroom break, the student detours to give his younger brother, Geo, a hoodie, return a book to the library, dap up Barbara, and get a drink from the teacher’s lounge, bringing the fungi with him along the way. Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2024 After cajoling the aging Chinese leader to open up his country, Cohen took a bathroom break with John Fairbank, the legendary China scholar. John Pomfret, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013 See all Example Sentences for bathroom break 

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“Bathroom break.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bathroom%20break. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.

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