quick-lunch
Example Sentences
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North of 57th Street, old trolley barns and quick-lunch cafeterias have been replaced by some of the city's most impressive apartment houses, some of them grandly set in their own block-long parks.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this huge and bustling shelter a barbershop, quick-lunch counter, tobacco stand and theatre-ticket bureau functioned busily.
From Time Magazine Archive
From Boston, from all New.England, from the outer-States and Canada came the sick, the halt, the blind, the faithful, the curious; also quick-lunch vendors, souvenir postcard hawkers, trinket peddlers, troublemakers.
From Time Magazine Archive
The crowded place might become a quick-lunch resort for some others, not insect-feeders—hawks, for instance—and was unhealthful for that reason.
From The Way of the Wild by Rountree, Harry
To think there are men—you know it and I know it and he was afraid of it—who'd have steered him to a quick-lunch and put him against soft-boiled eggs!'
From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth
