9 sentences with “counter”

With a smile on his face, the boy headed to the counter to order a vanilla ice cream.

The man stamped the passport and threw it on the counter.

Schatz placed his on the counter and the immigration agent checked it carefully.

The Revenue Act also gave the Customs Board greater powers to counter smuggling.

Mendez watched Schatz pass through the airline counter and customs and then disappear down the corridor leading to the passport checkpoint.

She glanced at the flyer with the picture of the missing boy on the counter. What a shame, he thought, looking into the little boy's big dark eyes.

It is an immense electronic counter, which keeps count, not of the distance traveled, but of the cars produced in the United States: 34,000 per day, in a good year: eight million per year.

Most importantly, British factories produced twice as many new aircraft as German factories during the war. Thus, the British Royal Air Force was able to counter German attacks with new, effective fighters and increasingly experienced pilots.

Perhaps the main theme of Enlightenment thought that ran counter to almost all forms of religious practice at the time was the rejection of 'superstitions', things that simply could not happen according to science (such as a virgin giving birth to a child, or wine turning to blood during communion).