How to Use lunch counter in a Sentence

lunch counter

noun
  • 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 lunch counter was spattered and smeared, a Covid petri dish.
    — Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2023
  • The lunch counter sit-in-ers and freedom riders.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • 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
  • And the lunch counter and soda fountain were manned 24 hours a day.
    — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 30 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 pair lived on a houseboat while transforming the place into a lunch counter.
    — Chelsea Brasted, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Perry had marched in protests and sat at lunch counters in defiance.
    — Kate Santich, OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Paschke sat at the packed lunch counter on a recent afternoon, waiting to pay.
    — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
  • During the morning rush, two men walked in and pointed their guns toward the lunch counter.
    — Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 17 Dec. 2024
  • When the men took their seats at the lunch counter, the restaurant’s white patrons became incensed.
    — al, 21 Feb. 2020
  • At the lunch counter beside a quartet of black boys Eating nothing.
    — Terrance Hayes, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The next day, nineteen additional students showed up to sit at the lunch counter.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • The tiny bar draws inspiration from its past life as a corner pharmacy and lunch counter.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 4 Dec. 2025
  • The former is a chic farm-to-table restaurant, the latter a casual lunch counter.
    — Jess Grey, Wired, 14 Apr. 2020
  • And the new lunch counter faithfully mimics the ’60s version.
    — Alia Akkam, Billboard, 5 June 2018
  • The city was soon the scene of pickets, mass meetings, a boycott of downtown businesses and lunch counter sit-ins.
    — Jay Reeves, Star Tribune, 13 Feb. 2021
  • The city’s long-running lunch counter in Eastern Market now takes credit cards.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
  • The restaurant’s named for the pioneering businessman who ran a cigar shop and lunch counter in the same space many years ago.
    — Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Really, much like its chili, this throwback lunch counter isn't exactly like anything else.
    — Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The old mythology was that a star might be discovered at Schwab’s lunch counter or in an audition room.
    — Josh Rottenberg, Twin Cities, 31 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Zachary Huerta walks behind the lunch counter at recess to take another chocolate milk.
    — Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Six months into the protests, Woolworth integrated the lunch counter.
    — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 31 Jan. 2026

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