spring break
noun
a vacation from school or college during the spring term, lasting about a week.
spring breaks
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pluralof spring break.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Instead they were tucked into winter and spring breaks with a mixed reception and low attendance of 36,486 students over two days in December and approximately 33,000 in April.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2023
Economists blamed the second straight weekly increase on volatility in the data around moving holidays like Easter, Passover and school spring breaks.
From Reuters ● May 12, 2022
There were Fedd’s oft-interrupted winter and spring breaks during Anderson’s junior year, when the player asked his coach to open the school’s facilities so he could continue working out.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2022
By the time he became a local firefighter in 2010, he was seeing her at least once a year when she came to Jamaica during spring breaks from college.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2021
In the narrow valley, far below the frowning ramparts of the ancient fort that has been more specially described, a beautiful spring breaks forth.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies
