Sentence examples for counter to be from inspiring English sources
Desire Kay walks into the shop and puts a Navy uniform on the counter to be cleaned.
One particularly busy afternoon, right before Halloween (a fabric store's busiest time), she came in and placed the bolts of fabrics on the counter to be cut.
This double-checking is intended to force the "counter" to be more careful and to stall the other child's impulse to grab an object.
He would rather it were not treated as the latest item on the cosmetic counter to be listed in the stockists pages of Vogue and Cosmo, alongside anti-cellulite creams and bio-thermal wraps.
As the narrative unfolds, we learn several things about the family: that Edward is about to leave, with trepidation, for a year's voluntary service in Africa; that Cynthia's particular brand of passive aggression would require an entire new model of Geiger counter to be properly gauged; and that Will's reliability in keeping appointments is in the Godot league.
As we make things side-by-side, we provide the space for low-key conversation, for telling jokes (Anna once declared a lone berry, left on the counter, to be the factory boss: "Okay, every berry, I'm going to say who gets made into jam!"), or for letting comfortable silence envelop us.
What our voice is counter to is the cultural noise that, for example, talks shit about Simone Biles and Gabby Douglas.
The flotsam of human experience daily washes across counters to be sorted and stored, then ultimately claimed, donated or discarded.
Opposition to bringing Plan B One-Step over-the-counter, to be sold along with the rest of safe and proven contraception, is based in political and ideological motivation, not proven science.
Sample volume effects are, therefore, another important performance parameter when gamma counters are to be used with samples of potentially different sizes.
Noshing one's way from counter to counter is another New York experience: there's something for everyone, some of it very good, some of it not so good.
