Synonym: bar, boycott, enclose, fence, revolt, strike, wall. Similar words: picketing, picket line, ticket, rickety, rickets, cricket, pernickety, persnickety. Meaning: ['pɪkɪt] n. 1. a person employed to watch for something to happen 2. a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack 3. a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work 4. a vehicle performing sentinel duty 5. a wooden strip forming part of a fence 6. a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake. v. 1. serve as pickets or post pickets 2. fasten with a picket.
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91. Hope of living behind a white picket fence was dashed with the mortgage crisis, but the dream is about much more than homeownership.
92. The picket fence that once enclosed the lawn was gone, too, and people just drove their cars right up to the porch.
93. Record the value for the Mean of the acceleration of the picket fence in the Data Table.
94. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan 's teeth.
95. He lives in a white-painted frame house behind a picket fence up in Connecticut.
96. The newsreel people were there, taking pictures of the picket.
97. Peru and Bolivia are the tarns and fells of the Alto Plano, snowy peaks and the fifth day of a miners' picket that had closed the highway.
98. Like them, he explains, he grew up watching Bill Cosby living behind his metaphorical "white picket fence"—one man, one woman, and a bunch of happy kids.
99. The miners are trying to get factory workers to join them on the picket line.
100. Here has the cunning Frenchman been plsting a picket directly in our path.
101. The late arrival of scattered portions of the signal causes problems such as fading, cut-out (cliff effect), and intermittent reception (picket fencing).
102. We've always had this idea of the American Dream: a nice house, picket fence. How has the definition changed over the last few years?
103. Admittedly, there wasn't a protester in sight when I visited this week, and staff have not yet faced picket lines or hate mail.
104. David E. Kelley: LA Law, Picket Fences, Alley McBeal, The Practice, Boston Public.
104. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.
105. We walked through the gate of the picket fence and proceeded to look around.
106. That message was hard to find on the picket line at DriveTest this week.
107. As an adolescent of maybe ten or eleven, I remember crying in bed because I never thought I'd be able to have the life I wanted — the picket fence, the marriage, the children.
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