pickets
Example Sentences
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The city council said it had suspended collections across the city for the day due to the "mass pickets and protests" across its depots.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 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
She was nurtured in the UFW headquarters in Central California, and she and her cousins joked that her family held pickets instead of picnics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2024
That’s the position workers promoted this week during pickets at UCLA.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024
Buford’s pickets saw the dawn come high in the sky, a gray blush, a bleak rose.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
