lunch counter
Example Sentences
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When he got in, he worked in his brother’s restaurants—a lunch counter, then a pizzeria—to pay his tuition.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
As a youth, he organized a lunch counter sit-in to protest segregation in his hometown of Wichita, Kansas.
From Washington Times • Apr. 5, 2023
In February of that year, Black students staged a sit-in in the white-only section of a Woolworth’s lunch counter in North Carolina.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2022
Aviv Shawarma Bar: This South Lake Union lunch counter never got the foot traffic it needed to survive when Amazon workers started working remotely during the pandemic.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2022
Only a few people knew of his presence in Floyd McKissick’s house, where Callis Brown and other NCC students were finalizing plans for a sit-in at a Durham lunch counter.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
