pickets

Example Sentences

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The city council said it had suspended collections across the city for the day due to the "mass pickets and protests" across its depots.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2025

On pickets, speeches captured the dark but defiant mood.

From BBC • Aug. 30, 2024

That’s the position workers promoted this week during pickets at UCLA.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2024

The Network started a website highlighting workers’ claims about Royal India and has held periodic pickets outside its Kirkland location since April 2023.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2024

On the Western Front, especially, trenches were protected by dense belts of barbed-wire entanglements strung between wooden posts or metal pickets.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman