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
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
Kress & Company department store in Hattiesburg and sat down at the lunch counter together.
From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2022
Now the diminutive freshman waited nervously in his dorm room, dressed in his best suit and preparing to risk everything for the right to order a cup of coffee at a five-and-dime lunch counter.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
