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
Paschke sat at the packed lunch counter on a recent afternoon, waiting to pay.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2024
French food isn’t about to be knocked from its perch: The No. 1 lunch counter is still the local bakery.
From New York 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
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
