COUNTER in a Sentence
Learn COUNTER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
85 example sentences for COUNTER, such as:
1. You need to reset the counter.
2. His back can shave the counter in passing.
3. These tablets are available over the counter.
4. The customer cast his money on the counter and left.
5. The customs official beckoned the woman to his counter.
2. His back can shave the counter in passing.
3. These tablets are available over the counter.
4. The customer cast his money on the counter and left.
5. The customs official beckoned the woman to his counter.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of COUNTER
Definitions: Search Google Search M.Webster
counter
n. game equipment (as a piece of wood, plastic, or ivory) used for keeping a count or reserving a space in various card or board games
n. a piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot
Classic Sentence: (66 in 5 pages)
1 She sank down on one of the little stools behind the counter of the booth and looked up and down the long hall which, until this afternoon, had been a bare and ugly drill room.
2 Rebelliously she leaned her elbows on the counter and looked at the crowd, flouting Mammy's oft-repeated admonition against leaning on elbows and making them ugly and wrinkled.
3 Melanie was fussing about with the knitted things on the counter.
4 The old blades charged off toward the lemonade booth and others took their places at the counter.
5 There were crowds in front of every other counter but theirs, girls chattering, men buying.
6 He picked up her black fan from the counter and began fanning her solicitously, too solicitously, his face grave but his eyes still dancing.
7 She turned to three cavalrymen who appeared at her counter.
8 When he came to Scarlett and rested his basket upon the counter, she shook her head throwing wide her hands to show that she had nothing to give.
9 Scarlett leaned her elbows on the counter and almost glared at the excited laughing crowd surging about the platform, their hands full of Confederate paper money.
10 The place was in charge of the counter boy, who came to the house every night to report on the day's transactions, but Frank was not satisfied.
11 Willie, the counter boy, was reluctant to give her the large dirty-backed ledger.
12 The front door opened and the counter boy entered, picking his teeth with a quill.
13 He laughed so loudly the boy behind the counter started and looked at him curiously.
14 It embarrassed him to face his customers over the counter and hear them say: "I saw Mrs. Kennedy a few minutes ago over at."
15 If necessary, she would bully Frank into giving him a job in the store, make Frank turn off the boy he now had behind the counter.
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1 These tablets are available over the counter.
2 There was nobody behind/on the counter when I went into the bank, and I had to wait to be served.
3 The customs official beckoned the woman to his counter.
4 He wondered if the girl behind the counter recognised him.
5 The customer cast his money on the counter and left.
6 The leadership discussed a plan of economic measures to counter the effects of such a blockade.
7 The country needs a strong intelligence service to counter espionage and foreign extremists.
8 You need to reset the counter.
9 Running counter to mainstream Republican thinking, he is calling for tariffs and new trade barriers to protect jobs.
10 They moved two destroyers into the area to counter the threat from the enemy battleship.
11 There are always long lines in every bank and the people behind the counter are very busy.
12 The hardest thing in warfare is to counter someone or a group of individuals who are willing to take their own lives in order to take others.
13 His back can shave the counter in passing.
14 Kerry didn't elaborate, perhaps because the US and Nigeria do not agree on the nature of the menace let alone how to counter it.
15 Leftover food and unwashed dishes cover the dirty counters.