picket line
noun
1
: a position held by a line of military pickets
2
: a line of people picketing a business, organization, or institution
Examples of picket line in a Sentence
She joined her coworkers on the picket line.
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The picket line in front of a Will Smith music video shoot in West Hollywood is coming down.
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Dominic Patten, Deadline, 23 May 2025
Across a roughly three-week players’ strike, desperate franchises scrounged to the ends of the earth to find replacement athletes to break the picket line.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 18 May 2025
The union said that picket lines were set to begin at 4 a.m. Friday, including at Penn Station in Manhattan.
—Phil Helsel, NBC news, 16 May 2025
Given that the bargaining unit has about 2,400 members, there was no way that a late surge of no votes would deliver a last-minute return to picket lines.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2025
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Dominic Patten, Deadline, 23 May 2025
Across a roughly three-week players’ strike, desperate franchises scrounged to the ends of the earth to find replacement athletes to break the picket line.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 18 May 2025
The union said that picket lines were set to begin at 4 a.m. Friday, including at Penn Station in Manhattan.
—Phil Helsel, NBC news, 16 May 2025
Given that the bargaining unit has about 2,400 members, there was no way that a late surge of no votes would deliver a last-minute return to picket lines.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for picket line
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“Picket line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/picket%20line. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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