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
Manuguid also came to the lunch counter for the first time in 2010.
From Seattle 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
So I walked down Main Street to the south end, where there was a pay phone in front of the lunch counter.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
