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
He showed the students how to run an orderly sit-in by filling lunch counter seats in shifts.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2024
Manuguid also came to the lunch counter for the first time in 2010.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023
As a teenager, she had once thrown the “Colored” sign off a city bus, and she had already spent a night in jail in Nashville for participating in a lunch counter sit-in.
From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2023
Once, she told me that she wanted to participate in a sit-in at the lunch counter of the Woolworth’s, a retail department store chain, on Main Street in Hampton.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
