How to Use break room in a Sentence

break room

noun
  • The prison’s dining halls, break rooms, gym and board games are for guards.
    — Marcos Alemán and Regina Garcia Cano, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The prison’s dining halls, break rooms, gym and board games are for guards.
    — Marcos Aleman, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The fix is not a pep talk campaign or a values poster in the break room.
    — Juliette Han, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • By the afternoon, chips or candy from the break room call your name.
    — Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, The Conversation, 16 June 2025
  • Baby boomers may have watched from a break room at the office or heard about it on the radio.
    — Stephen J. Beard, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Church leaders packed up the food and put it into break rooms in each school in Lebanon.
    — Nashville Tennessean, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The back of the building would include an office, break room, restroom and vault.
    — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The plant manager said he was fed up and promised to take away cutlery from the break room if the thefts did not stop.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 July 2024
  • There’s a break room at the back of the shop where the children often complete their schoolwork.
    — Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The quickest way to sink your reputation is by sharing too much in the break room.
    — Colleen Batchelder, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • Do people enjoy a little background music in the break room or kitchen?
    — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
  • No one is relying on — or even expecting — apple crisp in the break room.
    — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2026
  • That’s the two of them, in the break room, sharing an inside joke about avocados.
    — Graham Techler, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Those plants sit above a break room equipped with booths, couches, a ping-pong table, an air hockey table and much more.
    — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 2 July 2024
  • Workers said that going to the break room to get water takes them away from work duties for at least five minutes.
    — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Place in an area where employees are allowed to have their phones, like the building entrance or the break room.
    — Elizabeth Baskin, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Two open trays of roasted peanuts were left uncovered and two bags of rice were left open in the employee break room.
    — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Or working air conditioning in all their trucks or a working ice machine in their break room?
    — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 14 July 2024
  • Prohibit wearing work uniforms in break rooms.
    — Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Bella set up a trap in the break room to find the thief, but was unlucky until her father ratted himself out.
    — Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 16 June 2025
  • At the end of the line at Downtown Largo, the operator walked to a break room.
    — Justin George, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
  • As the dad is wheeled away for treatment, their son is taken to wait in the employee break room until the end of his mom’s shift.
    — Raven Brunner, People.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Police say burglary tools were recovered from the car and were left behind in the credit union’s break room.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 16 June 2026
  • Soon after, Southwest posted a note in the break room telling employees not to use the racial slur.
    — Kizzy Cox, Essence, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Hall says an elder came to the station, and in an act of generosity, poured out her purse on the break room table.
    — Jeff Brady, NPR, 14 Nov. 2025
  • When Pitts came into the break room afterward, he was met with hostile glares, the lawsuit said.
    — Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Mark bolts, and Helly runs after him, leaving Dylan to wander the break room alone.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
  • But too many solutions are still dreamed up in conference rooms, far away from the break rooms and shop floors where those problems live.
    — Silvija Martincevic, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Increase cleaning frequency in break rooms.
    — Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Take two or three minutes to say hello to your neighbor, go into the break room, or take a walk during your break with one of your co-workers.
    — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 14 Apr. 2026

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