Example Sentences
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They picketed with placards reading, “Real Mail Not Email!”
From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2025
In 2023, they endured the dual writers’ and actors’ strikes, where many of them picketed alongside their more recognizable colleagues.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2025
Workers picketed outside their newsroom in London to protest the proposed sale to Tortoise Media, arguing it had been “rushed through” without the support of the staff.
From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2024
They were known as "scabs" by striking miners, who picketed as they arrived at work.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2024
With rare exceptions, the protesters picketed six days a week—every day but Sunday—through rain and snow and summer heat.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
