How to Use walkout in a Sentence

walkout

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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