Words similar to picket

Example sentences for: picket

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

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.
These long, slim vessels were specially designed to outrun the Union navy’s picket ships.
In exchange for the reinstatements, the union agreed not to impose fines or other sanctions on the 4,000 UAW members who crossed picket lines during the 1994-1995 strike.
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.
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.