How to Use picket line in a Sentence

picket line

noun

• She joined her coworkers on the picket line.
• 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
• The 10-month strike ripped the town apart as hundreds of workers crossed the picket line.
  — Star Tribune, 23 Feb. 2020
• 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
• Lisa Crawford brought coffee and donuts to the picket line, and the two sides started to mend fences.
  — cincinnati.com, 28 Jan. 2020
• Corbyn is more your guy for a rally or a picket line, or a chat at the bus stop.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2019
• 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
• In came hard-leftists who had learned their craft on picket lines rather than ski slopes.
  — The Economist, 16 Nov. 2019
• Health care workers in New York are hitting the picket line.
  — David Begnaud, CBS News, 2 Dec. 2020
• Read more in their notice to management and join us on the picket line from 9am-1pm!
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2022
• More recently, she's been seen with fiery red curls on the picket lines.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2024
• The Writers Guild has been on the picket line since May 2 after failing to reach a deal with the studios.
  — Kamaron Leach, Fortune, 11 July 2023
• While the public has been missing their favorite shows, those on the picket lines are, too.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 20 Sep. 2023
• Crossing the picket lines with me were a pair of West Point graduates.
  — Lynn Freed, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• They were threatened with loaded guns, and at least five were killed on the picket line or while organizing workers.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2024
• Zoom in: When the autoworkers went on strike, the president even walked the picket line — essentially the opposite move to invoking Taft-Hartley.
  — Emily Peck, Axios, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024