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23 examples of Picket in a sentence

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.
It's a lot of pressure, trying to be that perfect family behind that white picket fence.
I was a blue-eyed, chubby-cheeked five-year-old when I joined my family on the picket line for the first time.
Our protests soon became a daily occurrence and an international phenomenon, and as a member of Westboro Baptist Church, I became a fixture on picket lines across the country.
People I'd sparred with on Twitter would come out to the picket line to see me when I protested in their city.
He ran a blog called "Jewlicious," and after several months of heated but friendly arguments online, he came out to see me at a picket in New Orleans.
People I have loved with every pulse of my heart since even before I was that chubby-cheeked five-year-old, standing on a picket line holding a sign I couldn't read.
There's a big yard, picket fence, two-car garage.
The white picket fence, the perfect house.
Watching a children's birthday party through a picket fence is another moving moment.
Bill made a joke about how Pro-Life people should picket funerals, and Letterman had Pro-life advertising.
As many of you already know, the picket line protest that we had planned in behalf of Drake Hogestyn was pretty well a bust thanks to the devastating California fires.
Even by surgeons' standards,Doctor Stone is horrible and arrogant.Disliked by fellow medics in his big city hospital,none of whom will be sorry to see the back of him,he is on his way to L.A. keen to make his first million in Cosmetic Surgery.After taking an illegal route round a traffic jam he runs his vintage Porsche into a picket fence owned by the Judge in a one - ute town down south.Failing to bamboozle them with his big city ways,he ends up in the Judge's courtroom and is sentenced to do community service at the local hospital which is under threat due to the imminent retirement of the town doctor,a wise and experienced old-style MD.The rest is pure Preston Sturges.
Wilson, a respected president in the annals of history, comes off as a stubborn man who resents the ladies' picket lines and allows them to be imprisoned, even when he knows they have not broken any laws.
In the meantime, manufacturing workers are voting with their feet – and their picket lines.
Yet “pro-life” groups that picket abortion clinics are rarely seen picketing slaughterhouses.
Little wonder, then, that when neighbors stare beyond their picket fences, they do not like what they see.
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.
Not surprisingly, those benefiting from privileged schemes are standing tall on the picket lines.
On starting again, Fibby found his second wind, and with it there woke the spirit of daring and adventure inherited from his ancestors, who were accustomed to take their masters thirty leagues in a day for the sacking of a town, to sleep by a lance driven into the earth as a picket, and to return whence they had come before the ashes of the houses had lost heat.