tea break

Example Sentences

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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

Know someone who could use a tea break?

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2020

After a hurried tea break and a few computer reboots, it's time to record the final act.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2020

After a tea break, I’m promoted to planting.

From The Guardian • Nov. 7, 2019

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