How to Use picket in a Sentence

picket

1 of 2 noun

• Pickets marched in front of the company headquarters.
• The strikers held picket signs painted with angry slogans.
• The students were barred from holding a picket outside the company's headquarters.
• But if there is a strike, what is the slogan that’s on the picket sign?
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
• There was a white picket gate and a brick path that led with a slight curve to her front door.
  — Ian McEwan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• Some joined the picket lines, and others refused to cross them.
  — Douglas Belkin, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2022
• Stars can trade their picket signs for tuxes and gowns.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
• The union called for teachers not to report to picket sites as a result.
  — Fox News, 25 Aug. 2022
• Union members kept the picket going all week and through the weekend.
  — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2022
• Toni cautiously walked through the gate in the short, white picket fence that blocked off the modest front yard.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 3 Aug. 2022
• That would be a picket fence by scoring one run per inning, which looks like a fence on the scoreboard.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 1 June 2022
• The goal of finding a home in a nice, safe neighborhood with a white picket fence and a lush green yard is fading fast.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 24 July 2022
• Next week, nurses are expected to once again join the picket lines.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
• Blowe said in his video that success doesn’t mean a house in suburbia with a white picket fence.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2022
• The house was surrounded by a petite white picket fence.
  — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
• At long last, actors will be putting down their picket signs and picking up their scripts once again.
  — EW.com, 8 Nov. 2023
• Our counter-protest aimed to get there first, and to form a moving picket that kept the protesters away and allowed clients to pass through.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 6 July 2022
• Twenty years ago, Cathy dug 40 holes to sink posts for the white picket fence that encircles their small front yard.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2022
• What starts as seeing posts about the chain’s pumpkin spice lattes may now lead a user to videos of picket lines.
  — Jo Constantz, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2022
• But some Angelenos took their picket signs and their dudgeon to City Hall.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• Kotek often shows up at union picket lines to support workers in her free time.
  — oregonlive, 2 Oct. 2022
• In early January, about 700 union workers took to the picket lines over wages.
  — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Jan. 2022
• The joint picket ended with marchers spilling onto Van Ness Avenue.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• East Coast writers put down their picket signs briefly on Friday.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
• The union members authorized the strike on Wednesday and walked off the job Friday, forming picket lines.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2021
• Tyler built the beds out of recycled 2x4s and fencing picket panels to save money.
  — Elizabeth Jardina, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 July 2023
• More than 1,000 pilots, led by the union, showed up to the informational picket.
  — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 June 2022
• If even one union doesn’t get on board, all the unions have vowed to show solidarity and honor their picket lines.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 29 Nov. 2022
• But when the company gets an injunction to end the men’s protest, the women step up and maintain the picket lines, earning greater respect from the men.
  — Peter Dreier, The Conversation, 22 Aug. 2022
• If even a single union decides to strike, the others will honor picket lines, shutting down the railroads.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 22 Nov. 2022

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picket

2 of 2 verb

• The union is picketing the factory.
• Workers picketed outside the grocery store.
• But that hasn’t stopped her from picketing outside the show — as well as The View — the last two weeks.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2023
• Workers plan to picket Deere around the clock until the two sides reach a contract.
  — Tyler Jett, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2021
• The spokesperson noted that pilots plan to picket — not strike — on a day they're not scheduled to work.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 27 June 2022
• The unions are also agreeing not to picket or cause work stoppages before the big event, under the terms of the agreement.
  — Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 24 July 2023
• But nobody thought—or dared—to picket the justices’ homes.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 21 May 2022
• Drivers will picket outside airports and Uber offices, two of the groups said.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2024
• The Writers Guild of America has agreed not to picket the event since its members will not be working on the show.
  — Chloe Melas, CNN, 11 June 2023
• Members of the show have since picketed in support of the strike, according to Deadline.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
• She’s seen Scabby out and about during her four decades living in New York, but this was her first time picketing with the rat.
  — Mae Anderson, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
• The Writers Guild of America has been picketing for over 100 days.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2023
• Crowell was among about 10 workers who picketed outside the store to protest the closing in August.
  — Times Staff and Wire Reports, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• The guild agreed not to picket the ceremony—on the condition that the telecast go scriptless.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• Hundreds of bus drivers have vowed to continue a weeks-long strike, picketing around the clock in Chula Vista and Kearny Mesa.
  — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2023
• As of midnight, the Writers Guild of America will no longer be picketing.
  — Alex Cranz, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2023
• The Wall Street Journal first reported details of the pay for picketing workers.
  — Gabrielle Coppola, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2023
• Jack publicly threatened to picket the arena if Udoka didn’t make the final cut.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Mar. 2023
• Pilots have threatened to picket ahead of the winter holidays.
  — Alison Sider, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2021
• The striking writers and actors who picketed his studio this summer don’t seem to think so.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
• Some workers planned to picket all day while others will do shorter walkouts.
  — Dee-Ann Durbin, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Nov. 2022
• The Writers Guild still promised to picket, meaning stars and presenters would have to walk past demonstrating writers to get into the venue.
  — Mark Kennedy, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2023
• The actors would join the Writers Guild of America, which has been picketing outside the major studios since May 2.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 30 June 2023
• Columbus City School classrooms remain closed as city teachers continue to picket into what was supposed to be the start to the school year.
  — Fox News, 23 Aug. 2022
• Now, expect writers picketing and for shows that are produced on a weekly basis (SNL, late-night shows, etc.) to be put on hold.
  — Vulture, 1 May 2023
• One of the demands met by this new agreement is the ability for WGA members to picket alongside other strikers.
  — Vulture, 27 Sep. 2023
• Some workers planned to picket all day while others planned shorter walkouts.
  — Dee-Ann Durbin, Hartford Courant, 17 Nov. 2022
• The experience led her to picket other fast food restaurants and speak out about her treatment and demonstrate in favor of AB 257.
  — Alex Park, The New Republic, 24 Jan. 2022
• About 700 nurses have been on strike since March 8 and continue to picket outside the Worcester hospital.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2021
• Pilots have been complaining for months about the company’s policies and have threatened to picket at airports in the coming months.
  — Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2021

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