pickets

Example Sentences

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Despite some arrests, the authorities seem unable to prevent the pickets.

From BBC • Oct. 17, 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

That’s the position workers promoted this week during pickets at UCLA.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2024

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

The perfect picket fence now had a gate over the top of it, and one of the pickets was broken, jagged.

From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds