picket

Example Sentences

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Batista Filho said the plant has enough workers crossing the picket line to run a partial shift this week.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Chanting at the front of picket lines, strands of gray in her hair, in the 1980s.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

Speaking to the BBC at the picket line, St Cuthbert's staff reported "extremely volatile" behaviour from some pupils.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

A year after his appearance in Hazard, he traveled to southwest Virginia and stood on the picket line in solidarity with the striking miners.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026

The boys stood outside his gray, peeling picket fence.

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