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Zachary Huerta walks behind the lunch counter at recess to take another chocolate milk.
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Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
In the daytime, the cocktail bar is filled with light from floor-to-ceiling windows commanding a view of 5th Avenue and the historic Woolworth building, where, as a student, John Lewis led lunch counter sit-ins.
—Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
As Gold well understood, the fact that L.A.’s Korean dumpling shops, Armenian grocery stores, Thai lunch counters, and Salvadoran pupuserías are open to curious outsiders is one of the great privileges of living here.
—Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Their idea: If a white person of influence took a Black person to a segregated lunch counter, the restaurant would not want to say no to the white person.
—Damenica Ellis
july 25, Charlotte Observer, 25 July 2025
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Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
In the daytime, the cocktail bar is filled with light from floor-to-ceiling windows commanding a view of 5th Avenue and the historic Woolworth building, where, as a student, John Lewis led lunch counter sit-ins.
—Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
As Gold well understood, the fact that L.A.’s Korean dumpling shops, Armenian grocery stores, Thai lunch counters, and Salvadoran pupuserías are open to curious outsiders is one of the great privileges of living here.
—Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Their idea: If a white person of influence took a Black person to a segregated lunch counter, the restaurant would not want to say no to the white person.
—Damenica Ellis
july 25, Charlotte Observer, 25 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for lunch counter
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“Lunch counter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lunch%20counter. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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