lunch break
noun
: the time when a person stops working or studying to have lunch
had to run errands during his lunch break
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Then the morning hours passed today and jurors entered their lunch break without a peep.
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Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 18 June 2025
Judge Beverly Cannone read the question in court as the sides returned from an hour lunch break.
—Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2025
Nobody suspected anything sinister when a sixth grader at Okubo Elementary School in Sasebo, Japan, asked her 12-year-old classmate Satomi Mitarai to leave their classroom just before lunch break on June 1, 2004.
—Christine Pelisek, People.com, 15 June 2025
After a lunch break in the afternoon, the judge will read the jury instructions.
—Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 14 June 2025
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Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 18 June 2025
Judge Beverly Cannone read the question in court as the sides returned from an hour lunch break.
—Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2025
Nobody suspected anything sinister when a sixth grader at Okubo Elementary School in Sasebo, Japan, asked her 12-year-old classmate Satomi Mitarai to leave their classroom just before lunch break on June 1, 2004.
—Christine Pelisek, People.com, 15 June 2025
After a lunch break in the afternoon, the judge will read the jury instructions.
—Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 14 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for lunch break
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“Lunch break.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lunch%20break. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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