pickets
Example Sentences
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Despite some arrests, the authorities seem unable to prevent the pickets.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025
While some earlier protests did turn violent, she wrote, recent pickets outside Portland’s ICE headquarters have featured lawn chairs and low energy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2025
Collections were said to have been disrupted "due to industrial action by pickets" where police recently scaled down their presence.
From BBC ● May 24, 2025
The Network started a website highlighting workers’ claims about Royal India and has held periodic pickets outside its Kirkland location since April 2023.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2024
“Before Alice Paul and the pickets came, days would pass when the word suffrage didn’t appear in the dispatches,” a journalist wrote in the New York Sun.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
