pickets

Example Sentences

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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

The NUM sent protesters - known as flying pickets - to disrupt and pressure working miners.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2024

While pickets lines seem to be everywhere this year, union membership rates have been declining for decades.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 31, 2023

It feels to Marie-Laure as if they have wound these past four days toward the center of a bewildering maze, and now they are tiptoeing past the pickets of some final interior cell.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr