picket

Example Sentences

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Executives said the plant has enough workers crossing the picket line to run a partial shift during parts of the strike.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

As with earlier strikes, during the 2019 teachers walkout, administrators crossed teachers’ picket lines to keep schools open and hold things together — overseeing food distribution and student supervision during the six-day work stoppage.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

Much like Hogan’s mansion—which occupies three stories—the cottage property backs right onto the beach, with a charming white picket fence added to separate the dwelling from the publicly accessible area.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

From there, we leapfrogged to Venice, then Marina del Rey and finally to Mar Vista, where we bought our second home and planted ourselves like people who understood picket fences.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

The boys stood outside his gray, peeling picket fence.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles