quick-lunch
Example Sentences
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North of 57th Street, old trolley barns and quick-lunch cafeterias have been replaced by some of the city's most impressive apartment houses, some of them grandly set in their own block-long parks.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this huge and bustling shelter a barbershop, quick-lunch counter, tobacco stand and theatre-ticket bureau functioned busily.
From Time Magazine Archive
From Boston, from all New.England, from the outer-States and Canada came the sick, the halt, the blind, the faithful, the curious; also quick-lunch vendors, souvenir postcard hawkers, trinket peddlers, troublemakers.
From Time Magazine Archive
His eyes, which had never done anything of the sort except under stimulus of the horseradish which he ate in quantities off quick-lunch counters, could smart to tears at the thought of her.
From The Vertical City by Hurst, Fannie
He saw the two enter a quick-lunch restaurant—struggled with a crack-brained impulse to join them—dragged himself away to his appointment.
From The Grain of Dust by Phillips, David Graham
