pickets
Example Sentences
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While some earlier protests did turn violent, she wrote, recent pickets outside Portland’s ICE headquarters have featured lawn chairs and low energy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2025
Collections were said to have been disrupted "due to industrial action by pickets" where police recently scaled down their presence.
From BBC ● May 24, 2025
Women played a vital role in the dispute, organising food collections, distributions and fundraising, organising pickets and speaking at rallies.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2025
That’s the position workers promoted this week during pickets at UCLA.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024
I felt her gaze pierce through the white clapboard and the pink wallpaper roses and uncover me, crouching there behind the silver pickets of the radiator.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
