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• A long time union member himself, Phil showed solidarity with the picketing grocery store workers by shopping at a competing, unionized store.From the entry solidarity
• They can politick and debate, protest and lobby, write Washington and picket Main Street.2017 January 20, Conor Friedersdorf, “The American People's Burden on Inauguration Day”, in The Atlantic. From the entry politick
• To maintain stealth, SSBNs would first have to evade any adversary picket submarines lying offshore.2014, James R. Holmes, “Strategic Features of the South China Sea”, in Naval War College Review, volume 67, number 2, page 45. From the entry Sanya
• Once past the pickets, we had to remain hidden until Loiosh and I could identify the cook-tent.2010, Steven Brust, Dragon. From the entry cook-tent
• "Antimutant" pickets have protested at MTV's Times Square studio and at a tribute to President Clinton.2000, U. S. News & World Report, Volume 129, Issues 1-8, page 150. From the entry buzzstorm
• Many workers at Farah crossed picket lines and continued to keep the plant operating.1994, Lauri Coyle, Gail Hershatter, Emily Honig, “‘Why Did I Put Up With It All These Years’: The Farah Strike”, in Maxine Schwartz…. From the entry happy
• Bomb threats and pickets disrupted an all-night "teach-in" tonight at Michigan State University.1965 April 9, “Pickets and Bomb Threats Disrupt Michigan Teach-In”, in The New York Times, page 65. From the entry teach-in
• To the picket Private Copper held forth for ten minutes on the life-history of his captive.1904, Rudyard Kipling, “The Comprehension of Private Copper”, in Traffics and Discoveries, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC. From the entry purple patch
• I am on picket, and writing in the guard-tent by a guttery lantern.1900, Erskine Childers, In the Ranks of the C.I.V.. From the entry guttery
• Pickets came and went for the shortest shifts before resuming their work as teachers, taxidrivers or minders of other newspapers’ machinery.2016, Peter Stothard, The Senecans: Four Men and Margaret Thatcher, New York, N.Y.; London: Overlook Duckworth, →ISBN, page 54. From the entry taxidriver
• Instead, the unions persisted in believing they could defeat Murdoch through a unified campaign of picket lines, blackings and boycotts.2013, Graham Stewart, Bang!: A History of Britain in the 1980s. From the entry blacking
• East of the sewer outlet was “Soapsuds Row,” which was a collection of huts, old tents, picket houses, and dugouts.2013, Wilbur Sturtevant Nye, Carbine and Lance: The Story of Old Fort Sill. From the entry picket house
• Not only would this kill the book, but The National Organization of Women could mobilize and start picketing my house.2006, Pat Paciello, Has Anyone Seen My Reading Glasses?: The Humorous and Slightly Informative Chronicles of a Retired Baby Boomer…. From the entry Al Bundy
• If stones are unavailable at or near the picket site sandbags are brought in to build the sangar.2002, Stephen Hughes, The Iraqi Threat and Saddam Hussein′s Weapons of Mass Destruction, page 140. From the entry sangar
• This is the wixy old Willingdone picket up the half of the threefoiled hat of lipoleums fromoud of the bluddle filth.1924, James Joyce, FINNEGANS WAKE, page 10. From the entry threefoiled
• RMT union members form a picket line outside Birmingham New Street on July 27, as part of a national dispute over jobs, pay and conditions.2022 August 10, “Network News: RMT's Lynch raises the prospect of a General Strike”, in RAIL, number 963, page 7, photo caption. From the entry picket line
• She picketed the skewbald paint with the others, then filled the coffeepot at the creek and started a fresh batch brewing on the built-up fire.2012, Tabor Evans, Longarm and the Sins of Laughing Lyle. From the entry built-up
• Then I levelled the sand and lightly packed soil with the rake and shovel and put in a star picket to indicate where it was.2009, Evan McHugh, Birdsville, ReadHowYouWant, published 2011, page 179. From the entry star picket
• “You are tearing pickets from innocent fences,” said Town, and proceeded to unrail a respectable fence to procure weapons wherewith to “smash the'students' heads.”1907, Hamilton Literary Magazine - Volume 42, page 199. From the entry unrail
• My husband and his brother, Charles, made a dugout for us to live in and built a picket house of one room a short distance away.2014, Terri M. Baker, Connie Oliver Henshaw, Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma: Stories from the WPA Narratives. From the entry picket house
• Little picket gates and hedgy archways provide interesting access points to the gardens and their crazy paving winding among small lawns, rose arrays and vegetable patches.1998, Ciaran Carson, The Star Factory, page 122. From the entry hedgy
• The Court permitted one picket at each point of entry and exit from the plant, an arrangement promptly dismissed by the unions as "pink tea" picketing.1991, Karen Orren, “The Old Order and Collective Action”, in Belated Feudalism: Labor, the Law, and Liberal Development in the United…. From the entry pink tea
• Strictly speaking, he ought to have been following up the picket–boat, but he was satisfied that the circumstances were sufficiently urgent for him to take risks.1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 17, in Well Tackled!. From the entry a trifle
• When footage of protesters picketing the clinic played on the evening news, there was usually some slacker off to the side, leaning on his sign and eating a long john.2001, Mary O’Connell, “Saint Dymphna”, in Living with Saints, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry long john
• What you’ll see are flowers, flowers everywhere, plus trellis and picket fence patterns, natural stone floors, wicker and wrought iron furniture, complete with peely paint or a patina of rust.1999 April 15, Rose Bennett Gilbert, “Bring The Outdoors Inside By Cultivating Garden Decor”, in The Republican, Oakland, Md., section…. From the entry peely
• A quarter acre, a terracotta roof, a facade knocked out by some bored government architect, a Hills Hoist in the back yard and picket fences between us and the neighbours.1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, page 8. From the entry Hills Hoist

Meaning of picket

1. noun A stake driven into the ground.
2. noun A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
3. noun A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.

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How do you use picket in a sentence?

Picket is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Pickets normally endeavor to be non-violent.”

What is a short sentence with picket?

“a picket fence”

What does picket mean?

Picket means a stake driven into the ground.