tea break

Example Sentences

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When he was rebuffed he said this was "not good strategy" and while being told they would get back to him, said: "Have a tea break while you're at it."

From BBC • May 4, 2025

He forfeited the Oval Test between England and Pakistan in 2006 when the away side refused to return after the tea break having been penalised for ball-tampering by the umpires.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2024

As a truck rolls out of the Bhutanese bottling plant, operated by Veen Waters India, the 40-some line workers take a tea break along a short row of employee housing.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 20, 2023

The first continues until 10 a.m., pausing for Gandhi and his supporters to have a tea break and lunch.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2023

The tea break was one of the ways the brutal sugar-slave world of the plantations and the new work rhythm of the industrial factory were linked.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson