Example sentences for: picket

How can you use “picket” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The setting, complete with Norman Rockwell backyard and white picket fence, is perfect.

  • Warren Beatty running for president would be fun, but on the other hand he blew it by crossing the picket line at that PEN event at Cipriani's.

  • The scenes of Joy at work (wanting to do good, she crosses a picket line to take a job teaching English as a second language) are coarsely conceived, and the parents, Mona and Lenny, don't exist on the same level as the other characters.

  • I don't picket churches, even though I find the Doctrine of Transubstantiation makes me queasy, and I don't raise a crew to protest Adam Sandler's insulting my intelligence.

  • He peers through tired eyes out the window at his manicured suburban tract-house lawn, where his wife, Carolyn (Annette Bening)--whose gardening clogs, he points out, are color-coordinated with the handles of her shears--snips roses (American beauties) and twitters about Miracle-Gro to a gay yuppie (Scott Bakula) on the other side of a white picket fence.


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