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
• Across from the lunch counter, every stool along the bar was taken.
  — John Dos Passos, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• At the lunch counter beside a quartet of black boys Eating nothing.
  — Terrance Hayes, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
• The sip-in, like the sit-in at Dewey’s, used the same tactics as the college students at Woolworth’s lunch counter, according to Stein.
  — NBC News, 28 Feb. 2021
• From there, the protests moved to Canal Street and included lunch counter sit-ins in protest of segregation laws.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 17 Apr. 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 Montgomery County Courthouse lunch counter would become their stage, and all the world was invited to watch the show.
  — al, 21 Feb. 2020
• 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
• The next day, nineteen additional students showed up to sit at the lunch counter.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
• The racial barrier first fell at the old Read’s drugstore lunch counter at Howard and Lexington streets.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 12 Aug. 2021
• Unlike in the Deep South, there were no lunch counters to desegregate, no bus seats to claim.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Aug. 2023
• During Nashville’s 1960 drugstore lunch counter sit-ins, he was pulled off a stool and beaten.
  — Nichelle Smith, USA TODAY, 30 July 2020
• The former is a chic farm-to-table restaurant, the latter a casual lunch counter.
  — Jess Grey, Wired, 14 Apr. 2020
• The city’s long-running lunch counter in Eastern Market now takes credit cards.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
• In their midst comes Zeke Phillips (Tyler Lang), a young man who disrupts the status quo by staging a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter.
  — Dallas News, 15 Dec. 2022
• A few months later, Woolworth’s led the way in opening its lunch counter to everyone.
  — Washington Post, 8 July 2020
• Perry had marched in protests and sat at lunch counters in defiance.
  — Kate Santich, OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• Hal Yeagy, Harold and Lorean's son, took over running the bar in 1985 and expanded the one-room lunch counter to a bar, restaurant and blues club with eight rooms.
  — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Mar. 2023
• But good sound design requires more than just the ability to re-create the creak of a door hinge or the bustle and clatter of a lunch counter.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024