Sentence examples for counters while the from inspiring English sources

They often come across as bean counters, while the try-anything crowd occupies the moral high ground.

At RBS, for instance, there has been a 43% drop in transactions at branch counters, while the bailed out bank has already been criticised for reneging on a promise not to close "the last branch in town".

She leaned against the kitchen counter while, at the other end of the room, the children and the television revolved in a kind of gray, indistinct melee of noisy contradiction.

In the kitchen I lean against the counter while the coffee pot makes sounds like Darth Vader.

The cook pushed dish after dish across her tall counter while the waitress sped to keep up.

The three Vevodas stood around the dark granite counter while the board member, who was not offered coffee, stammered that he didn't know any more.

Some 637 cyclists had triggered the automated counter while the speeches were going on, and the numbers on the digital display kept ticking up.

Most of the customers would sit around the counter, while the chef, a convivial character who knew many of his patrons, would suggest dishes based on the seasonal and local delicacies he had purchased that morning.

Small sharpeners come in three types: hand-held ones that are drawn across a blade; sharpeners that are held flat against a counter while the knife is drawn through sharpening blades or wheels; and stationary ones that can be attached to counters or cabinets.

For instance, in the 1944 illustration of a boy trying to make up his mind at a candy counter while the storekeeper waits impatiently, the boy's neckerchief says, "Remember Pearl Harbor" and the simple illustration is transformed into a sort of allegory, juxtaposing the horrors of war and peppermint sticks.

The owner, Eddie McGonigle, sits behind the counter while the shop cat, BB, sleeps.