How to Use picket line in a Sentence

picket line

noun
Definition of picket linenext
  • She joined her coworkers on the picket line.
  • This led to some of the best jokes on the picket lines.
    — Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2023
  • And there’s the bonus of making new friends on the picket line.
    — Dan Doperalski, Variety, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Even the union ones were pressured to break the picket line.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2024
  • That marked the first time in more than 40 years that both unions were on the picket line at the same time.
    — Thomas Buckley, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The prospect of having to cross a picket line just to do his job was too much.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The 10-month strike ripped the town apart as hundreds of workers crossed the picket line.
    — Star Tribune, 23 Feb. 2020
  • Visitors to the show may need to cross a picket line to see it.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Writers spent most of their days during the ’07 strike on the picket line.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2023
  • But Laursen said morale on the picket line remained high.
    — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Writers on those shows have pledged not to cross a picket line if a strike is called.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 18 Nov. 2024
  • UC San Diego said more than 120 nurses crossed the picket line.
    — Teresa Watanabe, latimes.com, 8 May 2018
  • Twenty workers crossed the picket line and went back to work.
    — Damian Paletta, courant.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Lisa Crawford brought coffee and donuts to the picket line, and the two sides started to mend fences.
    — cincinnati.com, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Corbyn is more your guy for a rally or a picket line, or a chat at the bus stop.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Kaydence Tice, a 30-year-old songwriter, was at the front of the picket line.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The movies that rolled out in 2023 were made before writers and actors hit the picket lines.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Many arrived around 6 a.m. and remained on the picket lines all day.
    — Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The actors and writers on the picket line are less sanguine.
    — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Both Warrior Met and the union have used the picket line as a way to focus attention on the strike.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Tens of thousands right now are walking the picket line.
    — NBC News, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Workers on the picket line receive strike pay of $275 per week.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 16 July 2021
  • Before the deal, union leaders crafted a strike pay plan and picket lines across the Strip.
    — Sahil Kapur, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Keep showing up on the picket lines and make your voices heard around the country.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The Ohio senator showed up at a UAW picket line last fall.
    — Emily Peck, Axios, 19 July 2024
  • In came hard-leftists who had learned their craft on picket lines rather than ski slopes.
    — The Economist, 16 Nov. 2019
  • Health care workers in New York are hitting the picket line.
    — David Begnaud, CBS News, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Read more in their notice to management and join us on the picket line from 9am-1pm!
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2022
  • More recently, she's been seen with fiery red curls on the picket lines.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2024
  • When Hollywood writers took to the picket lines in the spring of 2023, at least in part to defend themselves against the encroaching danger of AI, Hatcher wanted to get ahead of it.
    — Allegra Rosenberg, WIRED, 28 Oct. 2024

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