How to Use picket line in a Sentence

picket line

noun

• She joined her coworkers on the picket line.
• The 10-month strike ripped the town apart as hundreds of workers crossed the picket line.
  — Star Tribune, 23 Feb. 2020
• Health care workers in New York are hitting the picket line.
  — David Begnaud, CBS News, 2 Dec. 2020
• Crossing the picket lines with me were a pair of West Point graduates.
  — Lynn Freed, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• Union members working on the stadium honored the picket line and refused to work.
  — Mark Schmetzer, Cincinnati.com, 16 May 2020
• The letters asked each of them to withdraw from the festival and join the picket line, citing their support for unions and workers.
  — Kerry Flynn, CNN, 30 Sep. 2020
• That’s very much the message that sanitation workers are now bringing to the picket line, and to protests over racist policing.
  — Kim Kelly, The New Republic, 29 June 2020
• Last spring, youth across the city joined teachers on the picket line calling for higher pay, smaller classes and more support for the thousands of students.
  — Sarah Ravani, SFChronicle.com, 30 Dec. 2020
• When the City Council held a hearing on civilian review, the union mounted a five-thousand-member picket line in protest.
  — Steven Greenhouse, The New Yorker, 18 June 2020
• Outside the gates of the university, a small group of protesters marched on a picket line and urged arriving students and faculty to join them rather than go to class.
  — Jake Offenhartz, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2024
• Janitors held a one-day strike in downtown Minneapolis last week, forming a picket line, waving signs and beating drums.
  — USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2020
• This revolutionary planet is front and center on the picket line, always defying social norms and constantly pushing for progress.
  — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 30 Aug. 2024
• Rutledge, who had been a Giants backup, crossed the picket line, along with legendary linebacker Lawrence Taylor, for the third replacement players game.
  — Arizona Republic, azcentral, 27 Mar. 2020
• This led to some of the best jokes on the picket lines.
  — Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2023
• And there’s the bonus of making new friends on the picket line.
  — Dan Doperalski, Variety, 9 Oct. 2021
• Even the union ones were pressured to break the picket line.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2024
• That marked the first time in more than 40 years that both unions were on the picket line at the same time.
  — Thomas Buckley, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2023
• The prospect of having to cross a picket line just to do his job was too much.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
• Visitors to the show may need to cross a picket line to see it.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
• Writers spent most of their days during the ’07 strike on the picket line.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2023
• But Laursen said morale on the picket line remained high.
  — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021
• Kaydence Tice, a 30-year-old songwriter, was at the front of the picket line.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
• The movies that rolled out in 2023 were made before writers and actors hit the picket lines.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2023
• The actors and writers on the picket line are less sanguine.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2023
• Both Warrior Met and the union have used the picket line as a way to focus attention on the strike.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 25 Oct. 2021
• Tens of thousands right now are walking the picket line.
  — NBC News, 17 Oct. 2021
• Workers on the picket line receive strike pay of $275 per week.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 16 July 2021
• Before the deal, union leaders crafted a strike pay plan and picket lines across the Strip.
  — Sahil Kapur, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2023
• Keep showing up on the picket lines and make your voices heard around the country.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
• The Ohio senator showed up at a UAW picket line last fall.
  — Emily Peck, Axios, 19 July 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024