How to Use coffee break in a Sentence

coffee break

noun
  • There are coffee breaks, lunch walks and chats with co-workers that give some respite from work.
    — Kathryn Vasel, CNN, 12 Mar. 2020
  • The city is the capital of the coffee break.
    — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Trust grows in quieter moments like check-ins and coffee breaks.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The deputies were on their lunch/coffee break when the activity took place.
    — Laura McKnight, NOLA.com, 20 Jan. 2018
  • Host an extra-long coffee break or lunch where people can just be social while still at work.
    — Shane Green, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • And this was something squeezed into lunch breaks and coffee breaks and goodness knows what else.
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Take coffee break and wonder how someone who home-schools six children has time to write a book.
    — Heidi Vogt, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2018
  • These treats are the perfect addition to a coffee break.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 14 Apr. 2026
  • No doubt these Oreo treats will bring smiles to school lunches and coffee breaks in the near future.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
  • So bring the water cooler or coffee break online and try to make someone laugh.
    — Scott Sonenshein, Time, 3 Apr. 2020
  • Aim to set up virtual coffee breaks or social calls just to catch up with your colleagues.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 1 May 2020
  • 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
  • This all might explain why the perennial coffee break is still going strong.
    — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 20 June 2019
  • Lastly, try a Zoom lunch or coffee break with no business agenda.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Perhaps during a coffee break or while discussing the kids’ schedule?
    — Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 July 2024
  • Acknowledge impact with a team gathering for a coffee break or a full-day event.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • And that includes a coffee break, an Instagram scroll break, and three play-fetch-with-my-dog breaks.
    — Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 13 May 2026
  • 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
  • As such, taking a mid-morning coffee break to quickly browse your favorite sites may be more than worthwhile!
    — Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 3 Jan. 2026
  • There’s good breakage (coffee breaks, tax breaks) and bad (heartbreak’s just never pleasant).
    — Loren Savini, Allure, 23 May 2018
  • 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
  • And sometimes, a coffee break can flow directly into the cocktail hour.
    — Rebekah Peppler, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Ask a different person each week to a 15-20 minute coffee break.
    — Deanne Kaczerski, Marie Claire, 20 Mar. 2014
  • In many ways, social media is an extension of water cooler talk or a coffee break, but with a broader reach.
    — Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2022
  • For those working from home and all others, there is talk of open air, social distance coffee breaks or same style evening patio happy hours.
    — Chelsea Watkins, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • Bundle up and get outside during daylight hours, whether for a brisk walk, a coffee break or simply sitting in a sunny spot.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 17 Dec. 2024

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