- present participle of picket.
picketing
Example Sentences
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Those early years were marked by bitter and sometimes brutal incidents involving picketing farm workers who screamed “ Huelga! “
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
But during the Oscars, which was produced by Quincy Jones, Goldberg, who was hosting, took a swipe at the civil rights leader who was picketing across town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 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
This hasn’t stopped some believers—physicists included—from picketing high-energy laboratories like Fermilab; they believe that a high-energy collision could cause a spontaneous collapse of the vacuum.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
