How to Use walkout in a Sentence

walkout

1 of 2 noun
  • Hundreds of workers staged a walkout to protest conditions in the factory.
  • The newsroom’s union staged a one-day walkout in protest of the layoffs.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The sizable walkout had left the school at a near standstill.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Hobbs reacted to the walkout after the address and called the move puerile.
    Luke Gentile, Washington Examiner, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The space has a media room, a game room, and a spa that’s decked out with a steam shower and a walkout hot tub.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Rowe would not be scheduled to have her day in court if the walkout had not forced Google to end the practice.
    WIRED, 2 Oct. 2023
  • If that plant is shut by a walkout, the financial cost to GM would soar.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Strikes brought trains to a halt as walkouts by trash collectors leave heaps of garbage to pile up on the streets of Paris.
    Ellen Francis, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Some high school students also joined in on the statewide walkout.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The special led to a Netflix employee walkout and protest at the time.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 24 Jan. 2023
  • While the strike didn’t occur, talks of a walkout may have caused some Yellow customers to pull back, Chan said.
    Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Fortune, 31 July 2023
  • The walkout from Democrats took place when Cammack tried to show a video explaining what the surgeries look like.
    Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner, 24 July 2023
  • In contrast to the initial walkout, tents had now been set up outside the fence around the plant, and there were supplies of snacks and water.
    Breana Noble The Detroit News (tns), Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Students staged two walkouts this week to protest the law’s enforcement.
    Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2023
  • There is plenty of room to entertain guests in the walkout basement level or bonus area over the garage.
    Ellen Antworth, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Over time, the UAW added factories affected by the walkouts.
    Bill Koenig, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Park again repeated the government's call for the doctors to end their walkouts.
    Hyung-Jin Kim, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Anthony Spencer, who has worked at the truck plant for eight years, said the surprise walkout would get Ford’s attention.
    Dylan Lovan, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Randy Barnes, president for the union representing the ramp agents, said there was no walkout.
    Rob Wile, NBC News, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The kids' rooms—plus a family room and second kitchen—reside in the ranch home's walkout basement, where French doors open to the backyard and lake beyond.
    Sally Finder Weepie, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Senior doctors have staged a series of rallies backing the young doctors but haven't joined the walkouts.
    Hyung-Jin Kim, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Comaroff returned to campus in the fall and a walkout was staged during his first class, the Crimson reported.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2023
  • During the nearly five-month walkout, no issue resonated more than the use of AI in script writing.
    Jake Coyle, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The auto workers' strike against Detroit's Big Three went into its fourth day with no signs of an early breakthrough and against the threat that the walkout could soon spread.
    CBS News, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Kopit Levien sent out an e-mail to employees the night before the walkout, but Sulzberger has largely been silent.
    Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The United Auto Workers union spared the automaker from more walkouts based on progress in contract talks.
    WSJ, 22 Sep. 2023
  • But prior decades of walkouts far surpass those of the 1990s, when more than a million workers routinely went on strike each year.
    Alyssa Fowers, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Ifeoma Nkemdi refused to leave the classroom during the 2019 walkout.
    Matt Paprocki, National Review, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Deutsche Bahn tried to obtain an emergency injunction before a three-day walkout this month, but a court in Frankfurt found that the union had the right to strike.
    Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • There was an incident in recent weeks where some of your employees staged a walkout.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune Well, 10 Oct. 2023
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walk out

2 of 2 verb
  • The neighbor said the young man then walked out of the house.
    Malachy Browne, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The two walked out with their arms linked and thanked the audience.
    Marianne Garvey, CNN, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Haniyeh nodded, looked down at the ground and slowly walked out of the room.
    Tia Goldenberg, arkansasonline.com, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Adonis walked out of the courthouse last month a free man.
    Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
  • In 1993, Kris Tompkins walked out of the C-suite and into the wild, and never looked back.
    Ben Ashwell, WSJ, 5 July 2023
  • Ebrahimi walked out of her hotel and tried to cross the street, but there was a huge crowd in front of her.
    Joanne Fowler, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Wooden walked out of the courtroom a man with a mission.
    Tom Hallman, oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2023
  • So walking out in the dark was super fun, with over 100 pounds on our backs.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Yu drove her truck down a service road and walked out onto North Beach.
    Michael Adno, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The agents hurried to the store and saw a man walk out with more than a dozen AK-47 style rifles, load them into a car, and drive off.
    Ieva Jusionyte, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2024
  • According to the girlfriend of Diaz, two men walked out of the house while both victims stood near the front door of the house.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr., The Arizona Republic, 6 July 2023
  • The stars of Oppenheimer walked out of the film’s London premiere when the strike began.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 21 July 2023
  • The 10-year-old girl walking out into the light to confused applause.
    Beanie Feldstein, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
  • King County Superior Court Miller says the man walked out of the bushes ahead of the boys.
    Annabelle Allen, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2023
  • As Paisley and her dad walked out of the stadium, Paisley was in shock.
    Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • But Parker, looking stern as tears streamed down his cheeks, walked out of the courtroom with his aunt.
    Emma Tucker, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
  • In the morning of the earth’s creation, 385 million years ago, before Príncipe's fist of rock punched up from the ocean floor, the fish walked out of the sea on its fins.
    Catherine Fairweather, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Morris and the others walked out of Pershing with huge smiles across their faces.
    Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Haynes suffered from a 4-inch laceration on his foot and was able to walk out of the water on his own.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 4 July 2023
  • None other than Bill Hader walked out from the side of the stage, joining Wong and handing her a single rose.
    Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2024
  • The third recalled watching Paxton and an aide walk out of the office carrying the cake box.
    Jake Bleiberg and Paul J. Weber, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • If these demands were not met, the delegates would walk out of the convention.
    Samuel G. Freedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2023
  • Someone would walk out of the house and get into the car, only to go back into the house five minutes later.
    Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Someone walked into a store and walked out without paying for about $30 worth of items.
    Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • As sheriff's deputies raced up Williams' driveway to respond, the first-term congressman walked out of his home and raised his hands in the air.
    Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2024
  • As the actor hung out at the beach, fans see him in the photo walking out of the water feeling (and looking) refreshed.
    Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Benedict was able to walk out of the bathroom after the Feb. 7 fight, but was taken to the hospital later that day and sent home.
    Ken Miller and Philip Marcelo The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 24 Feb. 2024
  • That evening, Lena and Hamdy walked out of their house to find a group of around 25 neighbors, friends and relatives in their driveway, with balloons.
    Vivian Yee, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • In other photos from the evening, Taylor Swift can be seen walking out of the screening with the famous couple in tow.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 7 Dec. 2023
  • As the gunmen entered the bathroom, shouting for people to come out, Manrique and her colleagues walked out of the stall with their hands up.
    Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2024

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