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    picket


    1. Each had its own little yard, surrounded and separated by white picket fences


    2. white picket fences of their home


    3. GENERAL: I received your note of this morning on the picket line,


    4. Wil appeared less stressed as they moved their horses to the picket lines where mortal men in Wolf Rohjor livery moved to take the reins as they dismounted


    5. A few years ago, I was treated to a television evening news spectacle, in which a Chicago grade school teacher, who had been on strike and on picket lines for the first six weeks of the school year, told an interviewer that such actions were for the benefit of the children


    6. The battle subsided into a desultory picket fire at sunset


    7. They also put a picket out front to try and keep any deliveries being made to the job site


    8. Their jabbering, and the attempt of Toral's staff officers to stay the retreat, broke the stillness as our worn-out troops were aroused by the picket fire


    9. He headed for the opening in the picket fence that appeared to be a perimeter for the fair


    10. The village was small and poor, composed of perhaps twenty houses, most of them made of logs, each cottage surrounded by a rough picket fence

    11. Only a high steel picket fence stood between them and all the wonders of an authentic wilderness


    12. from the world by a white picket fence


    13. proverbial white picket fence, a single car garage, and flowerbeds filled with tulips in the


    14. picket jewelry stores that sell wedding bands to Gays


    15. wire instead of a white picket fence around it


    16. He wiggled his toes in his cold boots to keep himself active and alert, then warmed his freezing hands over the brazier that was located a safe distance away from the tents; his duty was also as fire picket in addition to generals bodyguard commander


    17. It was perfect and clean, with a lovely stereotypical picket fence that bordered the cemetery grounds


    18. be more than happy to cross any picket line that counteracted a conspiracy of this ilk against the


    19. It hit the ground and rolled all the way in-between two wooden slats in Meanie’s white picket fence


    20. Over a hundred years old, he was known by the locals as a shut-in, who kept a perfect yard with a beautiful white picket fence

    21. This agreement called for release of all political prisoners; restore confiscated property of farmers, repeal salt tax, and right of people to picket liquor, opium, and foreign cloth shops


    22. Our forefathers have long contended with the oppressive borders and picket lines of the troll folk of Gaea


    23. “Rauros, our scouts have reported similar situations all along the picket line with Mystic Down


    24. The invaders would soon reach the picket line bordering their region with Mystic Down


    25. A block of homes that all look the same, grass cut to precision height, regulation picket fences, mirrored windows, one way glass, detached breakfast nooks


    26. They let them fly to Taliesin’s Tower with numbers reporting the movements of the Stalactite Forces from the picket line along the Arkadian Border


    27. Reports remain of Denizens of Chaos lingering in the wilderness beyond the picket line bordering my region with Arkadia


    28. We leaned nonchalantly on the picket fence


    29. A star picket from a nearby telecom sign gave him enough leverage to slide the first slab back onto solid ground


    30. Both Joe and his friend Liam Brosnan were on the picket lines

    31. And if they close the plant what can you do? Picket an empty factory?”


    32. “What would you have done if the picket ship had come within missile range?”


    33. Small picket ships were stationed in a textbook pattern around the system


    34. A squadron of picket ships was no match for a single interdiction craft and six interdiction ships had just entered the system along with two destroyers


    35. The mother ship launched more picket ships, and soon the ten ships who had traveled from Homestead were opposed by two dozen pickets and a well armed mother ship


    36. Rachel, I was especially impressed with your skill in dispatching the Swordsman picket mother ship


    37. It can be fired from any of our P I and picket ships without modification


    38. In other systems, the patrol ships were lightly armed highly maneuverable picket ships that operated within a short range of a mother ship


    39. The Eretz defensive plan had its compliment of pickets, but primarily used the larger, more heavily armed P I which, due to its monstrous reactor, could match the picket for maneuverability


    40. Wendy and Rachel initiated jumps to positions perpendicular to the approaching picket ships

    41. In less than a minute of concentrated force from forty-eight lasers, they had severed both of the picket ships’ cable bundles and rendered the ships inoperable


    42. What were you feeling when you attacked the patrol picket mother ship?”


    43. the picket mother ship


    44. The squadron of light destroyers watched as the picket mopped up the remains of the drones and turned their attention to whatever would follow


    45. Rachel’s sensors detected the picket ships moving closer to take positions behind her


    46. If this ship was a Trojan Horse, the picket ships would not stand a chance against what it might be


    47. Rachel regrouped her squadron close to the picket mother ship


    48. Since the picket mother ship had a brig and Marines to guard it, Rachel transferred Denny to them along with a copy of the relevant ships’ logs so he could be prosecuted


    49. Rachel bid the commander of the picket squadron, Commodore Steve Reece, a fond farewell and headed for the relative safety of Nuclear Power School


    50. Reuben was going to the space ship evaluation center adjacent to Nuclear Power School in Mars orbit to assist in the field tests of the newly redesigned picket ship










































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    Synonyms for "picket"

    picket piquet pale lookout lookout man scout sentinel sentry spotter watch

    "picket" definitions

    a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event


    a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack


    a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work


    a vehicle performing sentinel duty


    a wooden strip forming part of a fence


    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


    serve as pickets or post pickets


    fasten with a picket