Picket in example sentence

Tom Sawyer pulled off that business strategy when he persuaded his friends to pay him for the privilege of taking over his hated chore, painting the picket fence.

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All right, so is better off getting a big house with a white picket fence?

But they were told that success meant leaving the village behind and pursuing that iconic symbol of the American Dream, the white picket fence.

And even today, we see a white picket fence and we think success, self-possession.

Many Americans are rejecting the white picket fence and the kind of highly privatized life that happened within it, and reclaiming village life, reclaiming interdependence instead.

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