How to Use luncheonette in a Sentence

luncheonette

noun
  • Hours before some games, the team would show up at the luncheonette.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 5 June 2022
  • The life at the luncheonette and the bowling alley, scrambling for a few bucks...
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 5 June 2022
  • Stockholm plans to have a 645-foot stall that will be set up like a modern luncheonette, with bar stools, an open kitchen and vintage tiles.
    Kathleen Purvis, charlotteobserver, 28 June 2018
  • A consistent problem is the tendency for servers to place kitchen orders at a luncheonette pace.
    Phil Vettel, chicagotribune.com, 25 Aug. 2017
  • There's much to look forward to at the luncheonette, not least of which is actually sitting in the restaurant someday and staying awhile.
    Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2020
  • In an era when all the old standbys of diner culture are sliding beneath the tides of change, Middle Child is proof that the luncheonette is getting a creative burst of fresh life.
    Craig Laban, Philly.com, 25 May 2018
  • The luncheonette in downtown Hackensack became their life.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 5 June 2022
  • Don't miss the thoughtful, delicious menu items the luncheonette calls noshes, like the house's sturdy salt-and-vinegar potato chips ($7) and dip — crème fraîche topped with lemony salsa verde and trout roe.
    Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2020
  • The Freedom Marchers’ daytime plan was to have groups of whites and blacks sit down in segregated luncheonettes and restaurants on Main Street, thus integrating them.
    Stu Bykofsky, Philly.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • A century later, this Automat isn’t a luncheonette filled with hazy cigarette smoke and mashed potatoes.
    Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2022
  • The restaurant originally opened around 1970 down the street, replacing a luncheonette called Luxor.
    Annie Correal, New York Times, 1 June 2017
  • Also, a Woolworth’s luncheonette could not plausibly have claimed that serving a plate of hash browns was a form of expression protected by the First Amendment.
    Roger Parloff, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2017
  • Her father, Peter, and mother, Camilla, immigrants from Italy, owned a candy store and luncheonette.
    Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2019
  • Other subway-adjacent businesses had followed the barbershop in the space: a grocery store, a luncheonette.
    Willy Blackmore, Curbed, 14 Apr. 2021
  • There may be no more emblematic culinary pivot of the last 18 months in Portland than Mama Đút, a vegan Vietnamese luncheonette whose origin story reads like a film script.
    Jordan Michelman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • At Richy’s, a Hyde Park luncheonette, general store, and staple among mayoral candidates, the mood Monday swung from apathy to excitement.
    BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2021
  • This luncheonette is a neighborhood institution and is conveniently located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan just under a mile from the finish line.
    Kylee Van Horn and Allison Knott, Outside Online, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The luncheonette will pop up regularly, probably a few times a month and extending for three or four days in a row, including weekdays and weekends depending on demand and Downtown event schedules.
    Liz Biro, Indianapolis Star, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Within seconds this quicksilver star sets forth a complex character—a salesman who is quirky, charmingly goofy and maybe a little screwy, yet fiercely determined to sell a five-spindle milkshake mixer to a luncheonette owner.
    Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2017
  • Little Pete's will surely be missed, if for no other reason because neighborhoods like Rittenhouse Square have upscaled their way out of the affordable luncheonettes that were once essential neighborhood institutions.
    Craig Laban, Philly.com, 24 May 2017
  • Paris’s cutest couple combines their respective Japanese and Franco-Lebanese backgrounds at this darling, perpetually packed luncheonette.
    Belle Cushing, Bon Appetit, 10 May 2017
  • Up next, Angela Pinkerton’s luncheonette located downstairs called Theorita.
    Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018

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