Picket is an English word with synonyms like lookout or protester. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Picket in a sentence
Related words
Picket meaning
- A stake driven into the ground.
- A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
- A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
Synonyms of Picket
Using Picket
- The main meaning on this page is: A stake driven into the ground. | A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake. | A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
- Useful related words include: lookout, military vehicle, protester, demonstrator.
- In the example corpus, picket often appears in combinations such as: the picket, picket line, picket lines.
Context around Picket
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Picket
- In this selection, "picket" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, activists, big, paramount, lines, line and lineswriters stand out and add context to how "picket" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a white picket fence and and activists picket against uganda. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "picket" sits close to words such as ariana, bombshell and byte, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with picket
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Alfre Woodard brought her empowering energy to the Paramount picket today! (11 words)
And Biden sent the same message when he walked their picket line. (12 words)
As you’ve seen on picket lines, our members are in this fully. (13 words)
But while other Democrats are to join UAW members at rallies and on the picket lines, Biden has stayed away, and among both union advocates and progressives over what looks like a White House effort to remain mostly neutral in negotiations. (41 words)
As students from LHS walked up and down the picket line, as well as support workers, there were plenty of honks from construction dump trucks, general public, HRM Firefighters in a fire truck, and more. (35 words)
And we have been supporting the numerous strikes that have been taking place – we have been on picket lines with the bus drivers, nurses, ambulance drivers, rail and postal workers, as well as others. (34 words)
Alfre Woodard brought her empowering energy to the Paramount picket today! (11 words)
Example sentences (20)
About 6,000 UW academic student employees and graduate students working as research and teaching assistants pledged to respect the picket lines.
Activists picket against Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill at the Ugandan High Commission in Pretoria, South Africa in April.
Actors will have enough money to buy groceries and school supplies, pay bills and rent, and even bring donuts or coffee to the picket line.
After all, this was the year that Chat GPT disrupted academic integritywriters to the picket lines.
After big picket lines in Lancaster, UCU health and equalities officer Julie Hearn told Socialist Worker that strikers are “resilient” and “committed to the strikes.
After three months on the picket linesWriters Guild of America and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers may soon be heading back to the negotiating table.
Alfre Woodard brought her empowering energy to the Paramount picket today!
And Biden sent the same message when he walked their picket line.
And we have been supporting the numerous strikes that have been taking place – we have been on picket lines with the bus drivers, nurses, ambulance drivers, rail and postal workers, as well as others.
A number of schools across the district are either closed or partially closed, and picket lines have been formed outside of Queen Elizabeth High School and Hexham Middle School.
As members of Starbucks Workers United plan to strike at Starbucks stores on Red Cup Day—as they did in 2022—college students are planning their own actions, including boycotts, strikes, and picket lines.
As nurses walked the picket lines, Montefiore Medical Center and Mount Sinai Hospital postponed nonemergency surgeries, diverted ambulances and hired temporary staffers to cope with the walkout Tuesday, Jan.
As students from LHS walked up and down the picket line, as well as support workers, there were plenty of honks from construction dump trucks, general public, HRM Firefighters in a fire truck, and more.
As you’ve seen on picket lines, our members are in this fully.
At the time of his 2008 interview, Dale was back living in the US in, what he called, "one of those anonymous suburbs with a white picket fence" and was thinking about settling down.
Bosses hope that even rubbish offers mean strikes are called off and gradually workers give up or cross picket lines.
BU grads walk past the Writers Guild picket line in front of the BU graduation site, where Warner Bros CEO David Zaslav gave a commencement speech Sunday.
Buses, vans, and cars honked in solidarity as they drove past picket lines in Wolverhampton on Wednesday, as striking university lecturers were joined by representatives of other unions.
But while other Democrats are to join UAW members at rallies and on the picket lines, Biden has stayed away, and among both union advocates and progressives over what looks like a White House effort to remain mostly neutral in negotiations.
Employers routinely obtain injunctions limiting where and how many strikers can picket; economic strikers can be permanently replaced; secondary targets often can’t be picketed; and so on.
Common combinations with picket
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the picket 77×
- picket line 75×
- picket lines 66×
- picket fence 12×
- on picket 10×
- white picket 9×
- to picket 8×
- picket outside 7×
- their picket 5×
- and picket 4×