11 example sentences using picket.
Picket used in a sentence
Picket in a sentence as a noun
A leaker can do more than 1,000,000 marchers with picket signs can.
I just said that I'd rather not try to push past the picket line at exam time.
Hello good sirs, I am able bodied and in want of land and picket.
But recursion is still recursion, picket fence bugs are still picket fence bugs.
Protecting picket lines is a strategy that goes back to the Chartist movement in England.
The people I know personally who are involved in labor politics use the term "direct action" to refer to sit-ins and picket lines.
Picket in a sentence as a verb
So if a bunch of hospital workers were protesting their pay and formed a picket line around a hospital, their purpose would be to 'instill terror?
Sure, it would be preferable to jump straight from poor farmers to a picket fence and a swimming pool without the in between, do you have a suggested way to do that?
For git repositories that are not touched very often, you can move the .git directory to something that isn't picket up automatically.
"on the day of the exam, all the students arrived half an hour early and stood outside the doors to make sure no one went into the exam room"; what is this, a picket line?I had a few classes that had three exams and a final, and the grading policy dropped the lowest exam score.
'Do you really think that picketing a hospital is comparable to using guerilla tactics against a civilian population?I'm not agreeing that people should be allowed to prevent access to a hospital, but the idea that 'terrorism' is the best label for this sort of action seems ill-advised.
Picket definitions
a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
a vehicle performing sentinel duty
a wooden strip forming part of a fence
See also: pale
a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake
See also: piquet
serve as pickets or post pickets; "picket a business to protest the layoffs"
fasten with a picket; "picket the goat"