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
• After an outcry from writers and pickets outside the show’s New York studio, the show reversed course and held off on starting production until after the writers strike ended (which turned out to be less than two weeks later).
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024

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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
• Once Hollywood gets back to work, there will be a logjam of projects that need reshoots and other tinkering, stalled while actors and writers were picketing.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024