picketing

Example Sentences

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“If Augusta National wants people picketing outside their gates,” he says, “they’d stop the gnome.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Ministers really didn't want to do that with NHS staff picketing outside the parliament.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

The picketing machinists benefited from a strike fund while they were off the job but were under increasing pressure as healthcare coverage lapsed for some families.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

Workers picketing at the Port of Philadelphia started marching in a circle at a rail crossing outside the port, chanting: “No work without a fair contract.”

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2024

Alice Paul and the other members of the National Woman’s Party knew how the suffragists had been treated after the Civil War; they decided to continue picketing.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling