How to Use water breaks in a Sentence

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  • Searchers are taking water breaks as necessary and morale is high, Bivens said Thursday.
    Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The bill, which goes into effect in September, strips construction workers in Austin and Dallas of the right to water breaks every four hours and time to rest in the shade while on the job.
    Denise Chow, NBC News, 7 July 2023
  • When her water breaks and her home starts flooding at the same time, did the belly prosthetic do half the work for you during that harrowing sequence?
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Casar held a thirst strike last month to protest a new Texas law wiping out local requirements for mandatory water breaks.
    Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • In fact, for many people, labor is well underway before their water breaks.
    Elizabeth Stein, Cnm, Parents, 7 June 2024
  • Sheryl gets her assistant Leslie to the DF private hospital once her water breaks.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 6 June 2024
  • Friday’s practice under an excessive heat warning forced the team to take measures, such as having four water breaks.
    Timothy Dashiell, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 2023
  • Ordinances in Austin and Dallas require that outdoor workers be allowed to take 10-minute water breaks every four hours.
    Breanne Deppisch, Washington Examiner, 12 July 2023
  • Kang has denied swimmers water breaks and limited their lunch break to five minutes even on days where the athletes are training eight hours, swimmers and parents allege.
    Scott M. Reid, Orange County Register, 5 June 2024
  • Multiple players and parents said there was no water or water breaks available during the workout.
    Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 5 July 2023
  • Dealing with the heat has required being patient with the players — delegating more water breaks and rest periods.
    Aaron Heisen, oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Players also unusually took water breaks during matches to lessen the chances of fatigue.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Texas passed a law in June that eliminates mandatory water breaks and rests in the shade for construction workers in Austin and Dallas, and restricts the power of Texan cities to mandate their own rules on this and a range of other matters.
    Julia Malleck, Quartz, 13 July 2023
  • Ordinances in Dallas and Austin that require construction workers to get water breaks has been one of the highest profile local laws expected to be at risk if the new law went into effect.
    Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Some of the instructors recalled instances from their own drum corps days when water breaks were not encouraged or outright withheld as punishment for a subpar rehearsal.
    Emily Cochrane, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
  • Lawmakers in recent years ignored calls for safety reforms like mandatory water breaks and access to shade for workers.
    Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 29 May 2024
  • Cook had suffered a preterm premature rupture of membranes, when water breaks and amniotic fluid is lost before the fetus is viable.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Fighting for protections In Texas, cities like Austin and Dallas have, for years, implemented local laws that mandate protections such as water breaks for workers when the heat gets above 100 degrees.
    Story, CNN, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Ordinances in Dallas and Austin that require construction workers to get water breaks has been one of the highest profile local laws expected to be banned starting in September.
    Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • In the middle of a three-week heatwave that broke all temperature records, Texas passed a law that effectively eliminated water breaks for construction workers in Austin and Dallas.
    Time, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Herrera-Picasso said Barnes Farming has previously mistreated workers by providing them with just 20-minute lunch breaks, as well as refusing to give water breaks to those who work out on the fields.
    Fabiana Chaparro, CNN, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Now Perez is worried about losing water breaks in 115 degree heat, a result of a new state law stripping worker protections in Dallas and Austin that had codified baseline heat safety regulations.
    Jacob Bogage and Eli Tan, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2023
  • Now Perez is worried about losing water breaks in 115-degree heat, a result of a new state law stripping worker protections in Dallas and Austin that had codified baseline heat safety regulations.
    Eli Tan, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
  • In the middle of a biblical deluge and after her (ahem) water breaks, Comer’s unnamed character heads to a hospital that is struggling to get by with emergency generators and an overtaxed fleet of ambulances.
    Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Workers testified in front of legislators about instances where they were denied water breaks or shade, which are not explicitly required under federal or state law.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Advertisement Children and adults alike need frequent water breaks to combat dehydration.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 19 July 2023
  • Mandatory water breaks and air-conditioning must be seen as climate issues, and our ongoing addiction to fossil fuels understood as a brutal assault on labor.
    Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Last year, after the hottest summer in Florida’s history, advocates pushed Miami-Dade to pass protections for outdoor workers, including mandatory shaded water breaks on hot days.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The importance of getting enough fluid is hard to overstate—and often underappreciated: Last month, the Texas state legislature banned local governments from mandating water breaks for construction workers.
    Rachel Sugar, The Atlantic, 14 July 2023
  • The legislature prohibited local governments from passing humane laws to protect workers, including requiring water breaks, pointing out that such actions could hurt businesses.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2024

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