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
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
In fact, his mother and father ran a luncheonette and his father also worked as a milliner.
From Fox News ● Jul. 5, 2021
The last of these wisdoms came from an old man in the luncheonette.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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