picket line

Example Sentences

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She has a flexible job and an older child who can watch her youngest, so she plans to join the picket line.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

A year after his appearance in Hazard, he traveled to southwest Virginia and stood on the picket line in solidarity with the striking miners.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026

Steve Parker, chief of the aerospace company’s defense segment, said in a Tuesday letter to workers that the company wouldn’t move off its basic contract terms and urged them to cross the picket line.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

Local Boeing officials in St. Louis have said the company is accelerating recruitment of replacement workers and welcoming back employees who cross the picket line.

From Barron's • Oct. 29, 2025

Buford rode out once more, in the dark, to the picket line.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara