luncheonette

Example Sentences

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When Vincent Zurzolo was 5, he would beg his mother for 10 cents so he could buy comic books at the luncheonette and candy store near his home in Rockaway Beach, Queens.

From New York Times • May 6, 2022

In street clothes, he drives a silver pickup truck with a yellow light on top through the port’s busy lanes, past a greasy-spoon luncheonette and beyond a gate by a former Singer sewing machine factory.

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021

Her father built a new life in America and owned a luncheonette in Brooklyn, New York, Ziff said.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 23, 2021

In fact, his mother and father ran a luncheonette and his father also worked as a milliner.

From Fox News • Jul. 5, 2021

I seemed to be haunted by cabbage fumes; the little luncheonette in which I found the telephone was reeking.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison