get a break

Example Sentences

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“It looks like we’ll get a break Monday,” meteorologist Cory Mueller said in the National Weather Service’s Sacramento station.

From Los Angeles Times

In 1957 he moved to New York City, where he lived with an uncle near Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx and worked as a shipping clerk while trying to get a break in the music business.

From New York Times

Mr. Reddick, then living in Boston, landed some roles in local theater as he worked at other jobs — including artist model and newspaper deliveryman — hoping to get a break in the music scene.

From Washington Post

The daily trips to Disneyland started out for Jeff Reitz as a way for him to get out of the house, get some exercise and get a break from the toil of looking for work when he was unemployed in 2012.

From Los Angeles Times

"So anyway that’s it. I just… I still want my feed to always be a happy place that you can come and kind of get a break from the world. I always do, but I just had to say like, it feels weird and yet… I don’t even know what to say."

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