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

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

So when I saw him move to a table on the other side of the lunch counter, I purposely found a table as far away from there as I could find.

From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio