morning tea

noun

1. Brit equivalent: elevenses. a mid-morning snack with a cup of tea

Example Sentences

“If only loneliness could be solved with a morning tea or a coffee group get-together,” he says, “but if you don’t feel that you’re worthy of love and belonging, you’re not going to go to it in the first place.”

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Men gathered around the stand, chatting as they drank their morning tea and electric rickshaws rumbled by.

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Yu’s husband, Jack Chen, first grew suspicious in April 2022 when he began to notice a “chemical taste” in his morning tea.

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“An empty chair at the dinner table — birthdays, anniversaries, holidays without them. Everyday things, small things, that detail you miss the most. The scent when you open that closet door. … The morning tea you shared together. The bend of his smile, or the perfect pitch of her laugh.”

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Workers were soon taken on again with a 5% pay rise provided they gave up their morning tea break.

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