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
Manuguid also came to the lunch counter for the first time in 2010.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023
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
Kress & Company department store in Hattiesburg and sat down at the lunch counter together.
From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2022
I hadn’t seen at all what Meryl Lee was doing on Valentine’s Day, while we were sipping Cokes at the lunch counter at Woolworth’s.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
