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
He showed the students how to run an orderly sit-in by filling lunch counter seats in shifts.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2024
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
Aviv Shawarma Bar: This South Lake Union lunch counter never got the foot traffic it needed to survive when Amazon workers started working remotely during the pandemic.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2022
As we moved on, I could smell the aroma of hot food coming from the lunch counter.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
