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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• From Marc Fisher’s column on Larry Rosen, whose pharmacy and lunch counter was among the businesses to burn.
  — Drew Goins, Washington Post, 24 July 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024