How to Use coffee break in a Sentence

coffee break

noun

• Legs-up-the-wall time was our version of the coffee break.
  — Rebecca Straus, Good Housekeeping, 16 Feb. 2017
• The mid-match coffee break appeared to have worked, though.
  — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• What are the right ways to engage at work in the social hours, at lunchtime, at the coffee breaks, at dinners?
  — Samantha Barry, Glamour, 13 Feb. 2018
• There are coffee breaks, lunch walks and chats with co-workers that give some respite from work.
  — Kathryn Vasel, CNN, 12 Mar. 2020
• The system took a coffee break when Slater ripped a ball off Allen's shoe in the second inning.
  — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2019
• The deputies were on their lunch/coffee break when the activity took place.
  — Laura McKnight, NOLA.com, 20 Jan. 2018
• When the first person joins the coffee break room, a notice is posted on Slack to let others join.
  — Gilles Bertaux, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
• But, when the Internet gets in a frenzy, common sense tends to go on a coffee break.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023
• Sadie gets upset when left in the office alone in and always follows Marchuk on a coffee break.
  — cleveland, 19 June 2021
• Jorge Borgias, 33, works at the upholstery shop next door, and takes coffee breaks at the bodega.
  — Written By Sarah Maslin Nir; Photographs By Victor J. Blue, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
• Take coffee break and wonder how someone who home-schools six children has time to write a book.
  — Heidi Vogt, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2018
• So bring the water cooler or coffee break online and try to make someone laugh.
  — Scott Sonenshein, Time, 3 Apr. 2020
• Ask a different person each week to a 15-20 minute coffee break.
  — Deanne Kaczerski, Marie Claire, 20 Mar. 2014
• On a busy shopping road in North London, Olivia Ames was taking a coffee break and looked up from her smartphone.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
• Host an extra-long coffee break or lunch where people can just be social while still at work.
  — Shane Green, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• Aim to set up virtual coffee breaks or social calls just to catch up with your colleagues.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 1 May 2020
• Lastly, try a Zoom lunch or coffee break with no business agenda.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
• This all might explain why the perennial coffee break is still going strong.
  — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 20 June 2019
• So put on your cozy ’fit and venture out for a short walk, a midday coffee break, or a quick errand—drizzly day be damned (as long as it’s safe, of course).
  — Julia Ries, SELF, 17 Oct. 2022
• Lunch and coffee breaks are not required by federal law.
  — Chris Sims, The Courier-Journal, 5 Mar. 2024
• Those little moments of sisterhood—a five-minute call, a short text, a coffee break or a Zoom with our girls—end up being the fuel that gets us through the rest of the year.
  — Taylor Crumpton, Essence, 22 Feb. 2022
• Perhaps during a coffee break or while discussing the kids’ schedule?
  — Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 July 2024
• Encourage workers to get up and out of the house with gift cards for a daily coffee break or a sporting goods store to spur exercise.
  — Jon Dwoskin, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
• The dissenting justices say that if there are any remaining issues, like the coffee break question, then the case isn’t moot.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 27 Apr. 2020
• This tradition evolved into the modern concept of fika, the Swedish coffee break with friends.
  — David Nikel, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
• In two days of shooting, Lyssa only saw the pop star from a distance, through the glass, but a longtime backup dancer gossiped about her during a coffee break.
  — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 28 Dec. 2020
• And what followed the salvo fired on Wednesday morning in eastern Ukraine was also indicative of the rhythm of this war: a coffee break.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2022
• And sometimes, a coffee break can flow directly into the cocktail hour.
  — Rebekah Peppler, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2021
• There’s good breakage (coffee breaks, tax breaks) and bad (heartbreak’s just never pleasant).
  — Loren Savini, Allure, 23 May 2018
• Anyone who has ever worked in a cannery knows that 'mug up' is a colloquial term for coffee break.
  — Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024