Sentence examples for counter someone from inspiring English sources

From down the counter someone shouted "two scrambled on white, dry," as the door closed.

My favorite is in the section called "The Power Gaze," on how to counter someone who is either trying to dominate you or bore you.

When the bag exploded all over the counter, someone called the heaping eyesore a maudite poutine (Acadian for "cursed mess").

Know how to counter someone who has a dominant handshake (palm down).

"I've seen things I wanted walk right off the counter with someone else before I could make a final decision," Mr. Mead told me.

The opposition would often counter with someone who, in a successful season, would have been a creditable fifth starter in New York.

Inside, at the periphery of the lobby area, a white-haired woman in a blue sweater sat at a desk behind a glass partition with a slid-aside window opening onto a counter, like someone selling bus tickets.

Open for all three meals, you order at an indoor counter and someone brings lovely, elegantly fresh food to your table.

The counter is someone who counts aloud for the first time to keep everyone  in time.

Go to the drugstore or department store counter with someone you know who already wears makeup, and whose makeup you like.

So next time you're trolling the counters and someone with flawless eyeliner asks, "May I help you?" hop on that stool and let her have a go.