luncheonette

Example Sentences

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Demi Delvalle runs a luncheonette on Atlantic Avenue, and says the road is often heavily congested, particularly in summer or when one or more large entertainment events are taking place in Atlantic City.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2023

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

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

From Fox News • Jul. 5, 2021

One morning in January, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick found themselves together on the Upper East Side, close to a luncheonette they used to love, with an hour to spare.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2020

The last of these wisdoms came from an old man in the luncheonette.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen