pickets

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2025

On pickets, speeches captured the dark but defiant mood.

From BBC • Aug. 30, 2024

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 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