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

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

On pickets, speeches captured the dark but defiant mood.

From BBC • Aug. 30, 2024

The performers union, SAG-AFTRA, hosted two Halloween pickets on Tuesday, “Double, Double, Toil and Trouble!” at Netflix and “Spooky Solidarity Day” at the Warner Bros. studio lot in Burbank.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2023

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