How to Use break room in a Sentence

break room

noun
  • At least Ben Stiller didn’t get sent to the break room.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • At the end of the line at Downtown Largo, the operator walked to a break room.
    Justin George, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The back of the building would include an office, break room, restroom and vault.
    Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
  • That’s how good this Steven Soderbergh film is. break room gossip 11:00 a.m.
    Britina Cheng, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
  • That’s the two of them, in the break room, sharing an inside joke about avocados.
    Graham Techler, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Soon after, Southwest posted a note in the break room telling employees not to use the racial slur.
    Kizzy Cox, Essence, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Mark bolts, and Helly runs after him, leaving Dylan to wander the break room alone.
    Erin Qualey, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The quickest way to sink your reputation is by sharing too much in the break room.
    Colleen Batchelder, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Do people enjoy a little background music in the break room or kitchen?
    Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
  • The Law & Order courthouse is starting to look like the break room at County General.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The situation escalated when, in the office break room, Tom leaned in and sniffed her hair.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The novelist Sigrid Nunez also worked there, just prior to the publication of her first book, and the two became friends, chatting in the break room and on trains home.
    Elena Saavedra Buckley, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Because so much cash was going to be exchanged, the bank arranged for the closing to be held in its kitchen and break room, which offered some privacy.
    Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Soon after, the manager said Southwest had decided to put a sign in the break room telling workers not to use the racial slur, according to the lawsuit.
    Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Wordless, Drake walks throughout the shop, at one point measuring a block of ice, before landing in the break room.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
  • But when the vision quest fizzles out, many organizations are left with a colorful statement on their break room walls.
    Chip Bell, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025

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