How to Use lunch counter in a Sentence

lunch counter

noun
  • If the lunch counter is the heir to the table, then the chair is the progeny of the stool.
    — Bernice L. McFadden, Longreads, 7 Aug. 2021
  • The lunch counter was spattered and smeared, a Covid petri dish.
    — Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2023
  • There's a lunch counter with stools on the left; a deli cooler is in back.
    — Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 24 Mar. 2020
  • The Apple Haus, which opened in the 1970s, has a bakery, lunch counter, and cider mill.
    — Sarah Raza, Detroit Free Press, 31 Aug. 2022
  • And the lunch counter and soda fountain were manned 24 hours a day.
    — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Across from the lunch counter, every stool along the bar was taken.
    — John Dos Passos, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Across from the lunch counter, every stool along the bar was taken.
    — John Dos Passos, Harper's magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Best of all, pick up a made-to-order deli sandwich from the lunch counter.
    — Pam Leblanc, Southern Living, 24 Jan. 2025
  • French food isn’t about to be knocked from its perch: The No. 1 lunch counter is still the local bakery.
    — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • For most of them, the fight for equal service has moved from the lunch counter to the rest room—from the esophagus to the bladder.
    — Burt Solomon, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The latter was the site of the 1960 sit-in that led to the desegregation of lunch counters in the South.
    — Madalyn Mendoza, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The Friendship Nine are honored with stools at the former lunch counter where the protests took place.
    — Staff Reports and News Services, Washington Post, 11 July 2018
  • For a sit-in at a lunch counter, they were told, sit up straight, be courteous and don’t strike back.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 10 June 2024
  • When the men took their seats at the lunch counter, the restaurant’s white patrons became incensed.
    — al, 21 Feb. 2020
  • At the time, America's premier five-and-dime store chain billed the new Woolworth's lunch counter as the city's largest.
    — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 1 June 2021
  • During the morning rush, two men walked in and pointed their guns toward the lunch counter.
    — Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The player — who knew what could happen to blacks who sat down at white lunch counters — balked.
    — Michael Carey, Alaska Dispatch News, 26 Aug. 2017
  • The protests followed the first sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter by four Black men, later known as the Greensboro Four.
    — Cheyanne Mumphrey and Jeff Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The protests followed the first sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter by four Black men, later known as the Greensboro Four.
    — Jeff Martin, chicagotribune.com, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The protests followed the first sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter by four Black men, later known as the Greensboro Four.
    — Cheyanne Mumphrey and Jeff Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The protests followed the first sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter by four Black men, later known as the Greensboro Four.
    — Cheyanne Mumphrey and Jeff Martin, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Feb. 2022
  • And the new lunch counter faithfully mimics the ’60s version.
    — Alia Akkam, Billboard, 5 June 2018
  • Our hearts should go not to the family denied service at the lunch counter but the restaurant forced to serve them.
    — Joe Kennedy, CNN, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Woolworth’s in Alamo Plaza had become the first lunch counter in the South to desegregate in 1960.
    — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2018
  • In 1963, African-Americans were still not allowed to sit at lunch counters in the South.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Instead, the great gains for people of color came elsewhere — at lunch counter sit-ins, in the courts, and in Congress.
    — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Clarence Henderson, far right, took part in the 1960 sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro.
    — Tim Funk, charlotteobserver, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Paschke sat at the packed lunch counter on a recent afternoon, waiting to pay.
    — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
  • At the lunch counter beside a quartet of black boys Eating nothing.
    — Terrance Hayes, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Like Lawson, Lewis was among the leaders of the sit-ins that desegregated Nashville lunch counters in the 1960s.
    — Craig Shoup, The Tennessean, 18 July 2024

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