How to Use picket in a Sentence

picket

1 of 2 noun
  • Pickets marched in front of the company headquarters.
  • The strikers held picket signs painted with angry slogans.
  • The students were barred from holding a picket outside the company's headquarters.
  • But if there is a strike, what is the slogan that’s on the picket sign?
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
  • There was a white picket gate and a brick path that led with a slight curve to her front door.
    — Ian McEwan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • But people managed to hold small pickets in a few cities.
    — ABC News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Some joined the picket lines, and others refused to cross them.
    — Douglas Belkin, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2022
  • At long last, actors will be putting down their picket signs and picking up their scripts once again.
    — EW.com, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Curse words flew out of her mouth like closed fists, but no one could hear her because the picket is sound-proof.
    — Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The union called for teachers not to report to picket sites as a result.
    — Fox News, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Kotek often shows up at union picket lines to support workers in her free time.
    — oregonlive, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Union members kept the picket going all week and through the weekend.
    — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Next week, nurses are expected to once again join the picket lines.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Blowe said in his video that success doesn’t mean a house in suburbia with a white picket fence.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2022
  • That would be a picket fence by scoring one run per inning, which looks like a fence on the scoreboard.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 1 June 2022
  • Climbers are urged to have their own pickets in case the protection placed by rangers and guides is missing.
    — Becky Bohrer, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2026
  • Toni cautiously walked through the gate in the short, white picket fence that blocked off the modest front yard.
    — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 3 Aug. 2022
  • East Coast writers put down their picket signs briefly on Friday.
    — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
  • What starts as seeing posts about the chain’s pumpkin spice lattes may now lead a user to videos of picket lines.
    — Jo Constantz, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Or are the neighbor's dogs enjoying the gap between two pickets?
    — Josh Kelly, Oklahoman, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The goal of finding a home in a nice, safe neighborhood with a white picket fence and a lush green yard is fading fast.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 24 July 2022
  • Phase one, perform sit-ins at white lunch counters and picket stores that refuse to desegregate.
    — Shannon Rae Green, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The Phoenix picket is among about 70 events planned this week in 60 cities across the country.
    — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Oct. 2025
  • If even one union doesn’t get on board, all the unions have vowed to show solidarity and honor their picket lines.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 29 Nov. 2022
  • While searching Wallen, an officer pulled out a pocket knife from his front picket.
    — Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Our counter-protest aimed to get there first, and to form a moving picket that kept the protesters away and allowed clients to pass through.
    — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 6 July 2022
  • If even a single union decides to strike, the others will honor picket lines, shutting down the railroads.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The picket came after three weeks of rolling 24-hour contract extensions.
    — Jacob Sarracino, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • But some Angelenos took their picket signs and their dudgeon to City Hall.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Twenty years ago, Cathy dug 40 holes to sink posts for the white picket fence that encircles their small front yard.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2022

picket

2 of 2 verb
  • The union is picketing the factory.
  • Workers picketed outside the grocery store.
  • Union officials said workers would picket both work sites around the clock.
    — Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Workers plan to picket Deere around the clock until the two sides reach a contract.
    — Tyler Jett, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Some workers planned to picket all day while others will do shorter walkouts.
    — Dee-Ann Durbin, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Nov. 2022
  • But now there are free speech protesters picketing outside the theme park.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Some workers planned to picket all day while others planned shorter walkouts.
    — Dee-Ann Durbin, Hartford Courant, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The spokesperson noted that pilots plan to picket — not strike — on a day they're not scheduled to work.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 27 June 2022
  • But that hasn’t stopped her from picketing outside the show — as well as The View — the last two weeks.
    — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Drivers will picket outside airports and Uber offices, two of the groups said.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The striking writers and actors who picketed his studio this summer don’t seem to think so.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Feminist ideas no longer seemed to inspire people to picket their workplaces or leave their husbands.
    — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 10 June 2021
  • The unions are also agreeing not to picket or cause work stoppages before the big event, under the terms of the agreement.
    — Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 24 July 2023
  • Jack publicly threatened to picket the arena if Udoka didn’t make the final cut.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Pilots have threatened to picket ahead of the winter holidays.
    — Alison Sider, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The union has vowed to strike and picket the two local facilities until better terms are on the table.
    — Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati Enquirer, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The union has vowed to strike and picket the two local facilities until better terms are on the table.
    — Alexander Coolidge, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Clerks also were laid off at three other stores, but the UFCW didn’t picket them.
    — Pat Maio, Oc Register, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The kids organized a walkout and were picketing at the school gates, and that’s what ultimately made a change.
    — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The guild agreed not to picket the ceremony—on the condition that the telecast go scriptless.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • The pair made headlines picketing hot-button issues at City Hall.
    — Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Members of the show have since picketed in support of the strike, according to Deadline.
    — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
  • The Sharp demonstration is not a strike, meaning that workers are picketing on their own time but are not walking off their jobs.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Pilots have been complaining for months about the company’s policies and have threatened to picket at airports in the coming months.
    — Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The Writers Guild of America has agreed not to picket the event since its members will not be working on the show.
    — Chloe Melas, CNN, 11 June 2023
  • Crowell was among about 10 workers who picketed outside the store to protest the closing in August.
    — Times Staff and Wire Reports, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • She’s seen Scabby out and about during her four decades living in New York, but this was her first time picketing with the rat.
    — Mae Anderson, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
  • As of midnight, the Writers Guild of America will no longer be picketing.
    — Alex Cranz, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Their devoted nurses are returning after a month of picketing in the cold for their demands for patient and nurse safety.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The strike comes amid rising gas prices but was not expected to have a major impact on local prices, according to union workers who picketed.
    — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 1 May 2026

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