pickets

Example Sentences

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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

The NUM sent protesters - known as flying pickets - to disrupt and pressure working miners.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2024

“Before Alice Paul and the pickets came, days would pass when the word suffrage didn’t appear in the dispatches,” a journalist wrote in the New York Sun.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling