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.

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 Meanings and Examples of COUNTER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
counter
 n.  flat surface on which money is counted, business is transacted; one that is an opposite
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  Melanie was fussing about with the knitted things on the counter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  The old blades charged off toward the lemonade booth and others took their places at the counter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  There were crowds in front of every other counter but theirs, girls chattering, men buying.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  She turned to three cavalrymen who appeared at her counter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
11  Willie, the counter boy, was reluctant to give her the large dirty-backed ledger.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
12  The front door opened and the counter boy entered, picking his teeth with a quill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  He laughed so loudly the boy behind the counter started and looked at him curiously.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
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."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
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.