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Discover LudwigThe phrase "having a breakfast" is not correct in standard English; it should be "having breakfast." You can use it when referring to the act of eating breakfast in a general sense.
Example: "I enjoy having breakfast with my family on weekends."
Alternatives: "eating breakfast" or "having my morning meal."
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The next morning we were having a breakfast meeting at the Palace Hotel before our meetings.
The rest were either fast asleep or in the back having a breakfast of scrambled eggs and tea.
My personal highlights over the past 12 years of the book festival…receiving writing advice from Rebecca Stead, seeing my buddy Galen Longstreth sharing her adorable book, Yes, Let's, and having a breakfast chat with Pseudonymous Bosch before the event.
Don't be surprised if you see a few people having a breakfast beer at Tilia, a colorful neighborhood bistro, where there are 21 special craft brews bearing names like War & Peace, Insurrection and Lonely Blond.
"We say, 'We're having a breakfast to talk about men,' and they're, like, 'Oh, you must hate women.' We're, like, 'No, no, no!' " At nine o'clock, the group took seats at long tables set with mismatched china.
"It's like two 3-year-old children playing, and one is hitting and the other is slapping instead of sitting down," said Alex Lash, 56, an Israeli who was having a breakfast at a bustling restaurant here on Saturday morning in the Palestinian neighborhood of Beit Hanina after a three-hour mountain-bike ride.
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