Examples of lunch counter in a Sentence
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Members of the team would go on to participate in a sit-in at a lunch counter in Nashville to protest segregation policies.
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Willie James Inman, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2024
He was involved in hundreds of civil rights marches and demonstrations, and was responsible for desegregating numerous bus terminals, lunch counters and housing projects.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 11 Jan. 2024
The sit-in movement had been touched off on Feb. 1, 1960, when four Black college students sat down at a White-only lunch counter at an F.W. Woolworth five-and-dime store in downtown Greensboro, N.C.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
This dish might have been forged on the flat-top grills of lunch counters and diners, but today’s best smash burgers are anything but old-school.
—Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 6 Mar. 2024
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
Mann is like Robert De Niro’s character in Heat, who, preparing for a heist, sits down casually at a lunch counter to page through a phonebook-thick tome about the metals his crew has to blast through.
—John Semley, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
But that specific movement, that specific brand of resistance, happened in places where food was served, like at the lunch counter or at the restaurants in Rich’s department store.
—Bon Appétit, 22 Nov. 2023
An ancient Jewish lunch counter in the Flatiron district, brought lovingly back to life by new owners and made somehow more essentially itself.
—Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2023
Willie James Inman, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2024
He was involved in hundreds of civil rights marches and demonstrations, and was responsible for desegregating numerous bus terminals, lunch counters and housing projects.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 11 Jan. 2024
The sit-in movement had been touched off on Feb. 1, 1960, when four Black college students sat down at a White-only lunch counter at an F.W. Woolworth five-and-dime store in downtown Greensboro, N.C.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
This dish might have been forged on the flat-top grills of lunch counters and diners, but today’s best smash burgers are anything but old-school.
—Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 6 Mar. 2024
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
Mann is like Robert De Niro’s character in Heat, who, preparing for a heist, sits down casually at a lunch counter to page through a phonebook-thick tome about the metals his crew has to blast through.
—John Semley, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
But that specific movement, that specific brand of resistance, happened in places where food was served, like at the lunch counter or at the restaurants in Rich’s department store.
—Bon Appétit, 22 Nov. 2023
An ancient Jewish lunch counter in the Flatiron district, brought lovingly back to life by new owners and made somehow more essentially itself.
—Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2023
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“Lunch counter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lunch%20counter. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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