The phrase "as a refreshment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that serves to provide a break or a light snack or drink, often in social or formal contexts.
Example: "We will be serving coffee and pastries as a refreshment during the meeting."
Alternatives: "as a snack" or "as a light refreshment".
The flier, which Mr. Stafford still has, showed one of the marina pavilions and suggested it could be reused as a refreshment stand, pool enclosure or summer cottage.
The center and museum combined consist of 24,000 square feet of exhibition space, as well as a Refreshment Saloon, serving some of the same foods popular in the 1860s, like Virginia ham and apple pie.
"The consumer looks at that single-serve market not so much as a tap-water replacement but as a refreshment beverage — you're thirsty, you walk into a convenience store," he said.
South Bar continued to operate as a refreshment kiosk.
Following the suspension of railway services in 1941 the building was renamed South Bar, and remained in use as a refreshment kiosk.
British families leave them as a refreshment for Santa Claus somewhere obvious – a fireplace, the living room table – before the children go to bed.
As part of a refreshment of the BSkyB entertainment channel, Sky1 will also unveil a revamp of its onscreen look, with a new light-blue logo.
And the work's virtuosic not-niceness comes as a distinct refreshment in a season crowded with pretentious and pretty.
In the 1930s, while determined and hardy men attempted to tunnel railways through solid pumice, a marginally less rugged Robert Byron busied himself describing Isfahan as a "common refreshment of humanity" in his classic travelogue The Road to Oxiana.
And while Coke has been criticized for tarrying, hesitant to venture too far from the bubbly brews that have made it the king of the cola business, Pepsi has raced headlong into the noncarbonated market, recasting itself as a "total refreshment" company.
We washed it all down with a refreshment described as "the head of the anago, finely cleaned, dried and then grilled and put in your hot sake — slightly flamed".
