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
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
In February of that year, Black students staged a sit-in in the white-only section of a Woolworth’s lunch counter in North Carolina.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2022
Mr. Stone thought it was important to have “local color,” so I convinced him to build Mrs. Soldano a lunch counter where she could serve authentic Cuban cuisine to the tourists.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
