Sentence examples for counter as a from inspiring English sources

Then, use the counter as a staging area, arranging the tiles as they will appear on the backsplash above.

"He didn't talk to us for two weeks," said Mr. Barbaccia, 60, who had begun working the counter as a teenager.

In 1996, in response to customer demand at lunch time, Mr. Conte taped a piece of a paper bag to the counter as a sign-up sheet.

I did work at the meat counter as a teenager, but when I met Vince I was in a band called the Void and selling ladies' shoes in Debenhams.

The small corner store bustles with exuberant children, and a cashier makes room for a stroller behind the counter as a child pulls his mother toward a rack of toys.

They're very much about, how does it affect my children or my elderly parents?" What this has meant for the campaigns is that quite often, conversations with Hispanic women about the candidates' positions on social issues are held in volunteers' homes, around a dinner table or at a kitchen counter as a meal cooks on the stove.

He has witnessed two citywide blackouts from behind the counter, as well as a few large-scale civil disturbances.

On the counter, as long as your counter isn't a coral reef.

Personally, I also like to buy "decoy" bottles of supermarket own-brand versions, which I stick prominently on the kitchen counter as an extra defence against marauders.

And their studs, Claude Giroux and Sean Couturier, have proven as good a counter as any to Crosby and Evgeni Malkin.

Some Japanese fishing vessels now carry Geiger counters, as a means of avoiding hot spots in fishing areas.