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
In their vision, the lanes are lit up, the lunch counter is bustling and every time someone bowls a spare or a strike, a screen above the lane supplies a fact about civil rights history.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2022
Later, as I sat at the lunch counter in the five-and- dime to have a root beer, I could hardly eat for keeping watch all around me.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
