picketing

Example Sentences

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Ministers really didn't want to do that with NHS staff picketing outside the parliament.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

The picketing machinists benefited from a strike fund while they were off the job but were under increasing pressure as healthcare coverage lapsed for some families.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

One lawmaker apparently complained that protesters have been picketing at her house and targeting her kid, one source told the Wall Street Journal's Olivia Beavers.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2025

Longshoremen started picketing after their six-year labor contract with the United States Maritime Alliance expired at midnight.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2024

Some said that picketing had become “little less than criminal” and called it the most outrageous of the “foolish, childish methods you have used trying to harass our overburdened president.”

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling