How To Use Placard In A Sentence

Opponents would claim that the sight of placard-wielding pickets outside various religious functions presents the Gospel in a poor light.
Their unusual protest was organised after they were banned from bringing in banners and placards. The Sun
Another preventative measure has been warning labels and transom placards, particularly on rental houseboats commonly used by less experienced boaters.
The Times reported last month that sandwich boards and advertising placards are to be banned to reduce street clutter. Times, Sunday Times
The board is carved in the baroque style of ornament, and resembles very closely the black, lettered placards erected in whitewashed country churches.

But before she spoke Ms Morris was accosted by a placard-waving group of about 20 protesters demanding that they should be paid all year round, not just in term time.
A small group of protesters waved placards and shouted slogans before fighting with police.
Not so long ago she was pulled up by the Old Bill for a truly revolting placard. The Sun
He foreread like a placard Jeanne d'Étoiles 'magnificent scheme: it would convulse all Europe. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes
He helped me make my own placard to carry on a Gulf war march. Times, Sunday Times
How a bayonet from a German trench held up a placard with those magic words of good cheer that ever move the world -- "A Merry The Sequel What the Great War will mean to Australia
About a dozen anti-war protesters shouted "terrorists" and held placards saying "Anglian soldiers go to hell" and "butchers of Basra" as soldiers from the 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, known as the Poachers, paraded through Luton town centre at midday yesterday. Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
They come to a placard mounted on the wall, displaying a map of the Palace's three floors.
Outside the cathedral a group of people stood in protest, holding placards. Times, Sunday Times
Students painted their bodies with slogans or carried hand-written placards condemning the drive to war.
The hostile crowd included dozens of placard-waving children who stamped their feet and called for the pool to be saved.
While I was thus engaged, my patron was busy reading the placard that the library where I intern has placed at the reference desk.
Stephanie noticed an estate agent's "For Sale" placard outside the building. THE RHYTHM SECTION
So, keeping up the metaphor, the word might be rendered, as has been suggested by some eminent scholars, 'placarded' -- 'Before whose eyes Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
Nineteen years old, her head shaven, surrounded by placards branding her a witch, idolatress, and abjured heretic, she invoked the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, and St Michael the Archangel. Jehanne la Pucelle
They waved placards and chanted the slogans that are doing the rounds this week. Times, Sunday Times
Wala namang may makaisip kung saan pwede gumala so ... napagdesisyunan namin na mag-abang ng jeep at kung anong unang dumating, kahit ano pang nakalagay sa placard, doon kami sasakay. Archive 2009-02-01
The caption translates as: 'What exactly these women want to say with this placard remains unclear' Religion of Peace part 726 and Anglican responses
A small wooden shack with a carved wooden placard labeled "office" is surrounded by neatly stacked and bound pallets of sapwood. Mark Cassello: Can America Return to an Indigenous Economy?
Regional party secretaries, headmasters and teachers were forced to wear placards confessing their crimes as a ‘counter-revolutionary revisionist element’.
The script for turning that into practical policies, T-shirts, soundbites and placards - open the books, close the camps, shut the pipeline, stop the blowback - more or less writes itself.
February 26th, 2009 6: 37pm stanley Jerusalem-I have not forgotten where I came from, if some of these posters have, I was dangled over a shmaltz herring barrel every sunday and was used for fishing them out - you do not forget that even if mr galileo has forgotten - I am waiting for his report on the play where he will attend with a placard "I am A jew" on his back and clutching a lokshen pudding to his breast. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The Times reported last month that sandwich boards and advertising placards are to be banned to reduce street clutter. Times, Sunday Times
A small group of black dancers picketed the theater for two days, carrying placards and occasionally shouting slogans.
There are occasional placards and newspaper cuttings, too, which would benefit from basic translation for an English-speaking audience.
Such are the written placards wafered up in the gentlemen's dressing-room, or the green-room (where there is any), at a private theatre; and such are the sums extracted from the shop-till, or overcharged in the office expenditure, by the donkeys who are prevailed upon to pay for permission to exhibit their lamentable ignorance and boobyism on the stage of a private theatre. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people
Business leaders, the famous 1%, need to resist the urge to dismiss the whole movement based on the scattershot and at times ill-conceived nature of the arguments on the placards.
The article says that his followers already have the placards for the demonstrations printed up and stored for use.
I swallowed and read the title placard, strangely grateful that I was the only one standing here at the moment. Brush of Darkness
The high-pitched cries of a hawker selling beans on the street floated in through the window, further away, cars were nosing against one another in long, exhausted petrol lines, lecturers were gathering to announce another strike, pensioners were raising wilting placards demanding their pensions, and Aunty Uju, freshly graduated from Ibadan, had a job at the military hospital in Victoria Island. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Miracle
The students carried placards and posters on water conservation.
He stood in the street holding a placard saying: Work wanted. The Sun
We have thrown all our resources into ensuring posters, placards and stickers carrying the anti-war message are out across Britain.
Written contents of the placards will be listed in an appendix to the Laser Safety Policy.
The stadium literally buzzed with proud mums and dads, brothers and sisters waving tinsel pompoms and cardboard placards, and schoolmates excitedly discussing how they would vote.
Firstly, the film's hacker-as-hero shtick tapped into the geek chic of the dot-com days, before the bubble burst and sidewalks became littered with chubby, goateed types clutching ‘will program for food’ placards.
A short, bald and rather round gent in his late fifties waits in the arrival lounge carrying a placard that reads my name in bold capitals.
They were carrying placards and banners demanding that he resign.
There were one or two pro-hunting demonstrators carrying placards saying polls showed a majority in favour of hunting.
In fact, two women accompanied her, but carrying placards. Times, Sunday Times
It was a terrible thing to contemplate: the wreck of her son's happiness, the Prussian disgraced and driven from their doors, the wife, too, thrust forth upon the street and her name ignominiously placarded on the walls, as had been threatened would be done with any woman who should dishonor herself with a The Downfall
We'll placard the wall with advertisements.
Emerging from a Calcutta shopping mall, where consumerism reigned in all its garish vulgarity, I noticed a large placard attached to the nearest lamppost: Female foeticide is illegal. Archive 2005-03-01
If you don't have pieces of paper or placards, write these words on your hands and on your faces.
The protesting employees carried placards and chanted anti-government slogans.
Scores of other women lurking on the nearby pavements streamed in to join them, hoisting placards demanding action to end the cholera epidemic. Times, Sunday Times
On the newspaper bulletins such placards as 'Gloria in excelsis Deo,' 'Thanks be to God!' Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910
She even made a placard written in calligraphy and in faultless rhyming couplets denouncing the union.
Workers carried placards and banners, and raised slogans against privatisation and increases in electricity prices.
This positive value was most eloquently summed up in a placard carried by a pregnant demonstrator in New York City on February 15th, 2003.
Even worse than the placards was the picture of a crowd of locals jeering at the man's wife as she was driven out of town.
But up to 40 percent of downtown spaces are taken up all day by cars with disabled placards.
Some were carrying placards and waving handkerchiefs on sticks. Times, Sunday Times
The first taste usually comes from seeing your name placarded on a dead wall between some equally distinguished rolled oats and a new five-cent cigar. The Henchman
Just because he's black and President does not mean he must "recuse" himself from commenting on obvious reality: the racist placards and signs of the right wing protesters are not only a call to action for white supremacists and Klansmen, they are a clarion call to those being attacked. Clarence B. Jones: Head in the Sand?
Pictures of the occasion were placarded throughout Eastern Europe.
He stood in the street holding a placard saying: Work wanted. The Sun
A swarm of brightly coloured flags, shirts, banners and placards competed for the eye's attention while a mishmash of languages filled the air.
With nothing going on but election manoeuvres, the end result is stasis, which is perhaps, as the young woman's placard suggests, what everyone wants.
Pictures of the occasion were placarded throughout Eastern Europe.
Down one block -- two, three; then a sudden pause before a narrow store front liberally placarded with invitatory signs to the public, and with The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story
Mechanics placarded the autopilot as inoperative, though they did not pull or safety the circuit breaker.
Workers carried placards and banners, and raised slogans against privatisation and increases in electricity prices.
By the end they're in face masks and walking towards lines of riot police holding placards and clubs. Times, Sunday Times
A placard on a toy store simply said BUY IT, and Marta gave it points for honesty if not specificity. ROUGH JUSTICE
Police managed to put out the flames but failed to stop protesters from burning placards with slogans criticising the North's nuclear programme. Times, Sunday Times
Protesters carried banners and placards denouncing the move.
He darted forward, heedless of the flailing hooves and cursing rider and struck out towards her with his placard.
One demonstrator even carried a placard saying ‘Self employed worker on strike’.
The absurdity of it amused him at first every time he saw his name flaring in big red and yellow letters from placards and hoardings. Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls
The entire nation's economy has been redirected to felling acres of teak trees and converting the lumber to sticks to hold placards.
He had a neat little shop close to a jeweller's; next morning I passed that shop and noticed my name placarded there, surrounded by gold lockets, for that cunning nigger and his gilded friend were making a rich harvest of my shaved curls. My Life as an Author
A feature of the demonstration was the large number of placards denouncing the immigration policies of the Socialist government.
The protest march, which was over a mile and a half long, included tractors, farm machinery and farmers carrying placards.
The event is a non-party political event and party political banners or placards are discouraged.
He never used any accompaniment except his own guitar when he sang, his third record sold two hundred thousand copies, and Hunnicut had his name featured on the placards that were nailed to the fronts of the dance halls and roadhouses where they played. Half of Paradise
Pesticide storage areas should be placarded and locked away from children, irresponsible adults and animals.
The placards on the photo read qatil israel murdabad, 'Down with killer Israel'. Palestine Blogs aggregator
It was an anti-globalisation protest, but many marchers shouted slogans and had placards against the war.
The stranger strode the hallways, scanning the placards outside each door.
There were lots of people milling around, and a few guys with placards, and a bullhorn. A MEANS TO EVIL
Protesters inside the kettle set fire to a ticket machine in a bus stop, fuelling the fire with placards and newspapers.
Those demonstrating, including young children, carried placards saying ‘Don't house them, kill them’ and other incendiary slogans.
Perhaps, some day, his own name might be placarded on the walls of London.
At Starbucks' corporate headquarters, the signature mermaid placard toppled into the parking lot below.
Together with election placards bearing his picture, many Fortuyn supporters wore swastikas and other Nazi symbols.
Posters and placards spelled out the nation's gratitude. The Sun
In the afternoon all the San Francisco specials were full of the incident, and Hamar, seeing his name placarded for the first time, was so overcome that he spent the rest of the evening in the hotel deliberating how he could best turn his sudden notoriety to account. The Sorcery Club
Business leaders, the famous 1%, need to resist the urge to dismiss the whole movement based on the scattershot and at times ill-conceived nature of the arguments on the placards.
One ducky is all it takes before ALL the toddlers are snatching duckies and taking our credit cards and and drinking our beer and calling for revolution and turning North America into a Mini-Maoist wasteland, littered with beer-sticky sippy cups and crayon-scrawled placards and cheap-assed Made In Alberta duckies and ruled by a bicky-sucking, blankie-toting military prole dictatorship. A Clockwork Sippy Cup | Her Bad Mother
But about 100 protesters greeted his arrival on Tuesday with placards calling him a crook. The Sun
The old printed matters of the sixteenth century formed an extremely rare treasury; all the pieces, pamphlets, and placards on the reform of the Low Countries were kept together in a "varia" volume, thus constituting a unique ensemble. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915
In fact, two women accompanied her, but carrying placards. Times, Sunday Times
Quite apart from his agents, who are everywhere, the country is placarded with his portraits in a variety of roles.
Protesters against internet snooping carried placards that tweaked his old election slogan to'Yes we scan'. Times, Sunday Times
Online hordes massed, brandishing rolling pins and placards, ready to tear down the bunting and upturn the ovens. The Sun
And an opposition researcher took a picture, blew it up into a placard and brought it to a rally, which had the effect of instantly ruining the guy's campaign.
She even made a placard written in calligraphy and in faultless rhyming couplets denouncing the union.
The manufactures and certification bodies cannot be blamed for failures that occur outside the placarded limits of our gliders!
Many held placards bearing defiant messages. The Sun
A placard on the left reads'Zoos: cruel animal prisons '.
While many important airspeeds are on the airspeed indicator or placarded nearby, there's one speed many pilots forget to pay attention to: Vg (best glide).
PD and DOT Hazmat routinely stop placarded trucks for spot checks, or required roadside inspections. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - EL reader sent this in: Explosives Truck
The Bible Club members sit on a plastic sheet, wearing religious placards and singing hymns.
But suppose that all the land is bought up by one land-grabber; and there will only be one huge plot and one huge placard. G.K.'s Weekly - More Hints on Free Speech
Usually the forlorn demesne was supervised by a mangy waiter brooding over mangy tables and by a mangier cat who kept a furtive eye on the placarded list of each day's _plat du jour_ and wondered when her turn would come for Thursday's _Sauté de lapin_. The Belovéd Vagabond
They carried placards reiterating the need for abolishing child labour and the slogans emphasised the need to end this social menace, which was rampant in developing countries.
Let's say you're literal-minded enough to look for the meaning in everything, that you check the placards next to abstract paintings and you couldn't buy Ulysses without an authoritative guide to explain the references.
And Pilate wrote a title placard and put it on the cross. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
A newsvendor at the corner spreads a newspaper placard upon the wood pavement, pins the corners down with stones, and we glimpse something about: — A Modern Utopia
Each person was forced to sign an agreement not to carry placards or banners, shout slogans, or wear clothes with written words of complaint.
Instead, anyone who wants to take part carries on with their normal day, but carries a placard or banner while out and about.
Then I see my name before me, written in a crooked hand on a limp placard, held out in offering but noncommittally, as a salesperson might hold forth a sweater she has already decided you will not buy. Between Expectations
When I went through the Brandenburg Gate, it was scaffolded and shrouded and placarded and jackhammered, and I had to push through a countercurrent of girls parading their lovely selves through a temporary narrow passage of plywood.
In 3-D, Dolby 0.5 and 24 MP; on furious faces and hateful placards, in frustrated screams plus shallow stentorian hate mongers/hucksters/rainmakers/preying mantises up close and personal. Jane-Howard Hammerstein: "You Can't Handle the Truth" ... Col. Jessup (a/k/a Jack Nicholson)
This is placard diplomacy, pursued with more brawn than brain. Times, Sunday Times
The residents carried placards and complained that the roads had not been asphalted for years.
Scores of other women lurking on the nearby pavements streamed in to join them, hoisting placards demanding action to end the cholera epidemic. Times, Sunday Times
The maze is punctuated by dire chemical hazard placards. 365 tomorrows » 2008 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
The atmosphere on the march was fantastic, as young women, waving homemade placards and banners and blowing whistles, encouraged motorists to toot their horns to show their support.
Â Over five thousand dollars in $20 bills was found along the Columbia River in 1980 and a placard from the plane was also discovered. Five Mysteries I Would Love To Solve | myFiveBest
A placard placed near the motorway read: 'Cameron. The Sun
Outside the cathedral a group of people stood in protest, holding placards. Times, Sunday Times
Fans of HV71 and visiting team Djurgarden then combined in a "tifo" style tribute, using placards to spell out Liv's name during a minute's silence. Reuters: Press Release
No less disturbing was the loss of public esteem for the king, who became the butt of popular insults, placards, and graffiti - some of it regicidal in tone.
But up to 40 percent of downtown spaces are taken up all day by cars with disabled placards.
The soi-disant communists seemed not a whit dismayed, as if this always happened to their placards. LOST CHILDREN
An elderly birdwoman, whose placard proclaimed her a member of the Senior Citizens Harlan Grzyb Fan Club, was trying to fight her way through the zealous Voe admirers by swinging out with her plexiglaz crutch. Galaxy Jane
It doesn't have the placards explaining the research and it's filmed in a racketball court. From Gonzolabs . . .
Hands took the placards gratefully, then tore off everything but STOP THE CUTS. LOST CHILDREN
The incredibly convoluted response would need a billboard, not a placard, for presentation.
I wanted to avoid them but unfortunately I couldn't get through the forest of waving placards displaying Mao, Obamma and a mural of Clinton with waving red banners and toiling farmers in the background, but with her face which didn't flatter her much since it looked like she was prairie-dogging it (trying to suck a turd back in) (National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Special Edition)). Bison survival blog
But I had yet to experience the worst I ever felt in the whole course of my life, and that was on the day of publication; when I went out in the morning, and read my illustrious name placarded in large letters on the street walls! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3
Some were carrying placards and waving handkerchiefs on sticks. Times, Sunday Times
As if shut up in a cage, I stand among the high houses, which I now know by heart, with their inscriptions, signs, and placards; all the painted confectionery, that is no longer to my taste. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
This is the bargain basement of therapy, and you can't walk two blocks in that part of Manhattan without being importuned by placards promising their version of inner peace.
Online hordes massed, brandishing rolling pins and placards, ready to tear down the bunting and upturn the ovens. The Sun
Many young recruits, committed but unschooled in any sort of visual language, often resorted to producing hand-lettered placards in workshops subject to state harassment and sabotage.
The second was the arrogant and presumptuous assertion on the placards that it is their NHS. Times, Sunday Times
They waved placards and chanted the slogans that are doing the rounds this week. Times, Sunday Times
What all the late squibbing and fibbing, placarding, and blackguarding, losing and winning, beering and ginning, and every other _et cetera_, has been about! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841
Their unusual protest was organised after they were banned from bringing in banners and placards. The Sun
Under constraint of time and the non-availability of the appropriate placards, the contractor decided to transport the explosives without properly placarding their vehicle, a direct violation of safety standards.
Nothing farther took place to admonish us of the consequences of the trespass till our return from Iceland, when the principal amtman came on board with a formidable placard, neatly written, and translated into the three court languages of the place -- Danish, The Land of Thor
Workers carried banners and placards accusing employers of using unemployment to drive down wages and conditions.
But about 100 protesters greeted his arrival on Tuesday with placards calling him a crook. The Sun
It was a loud protest, and I held my placard high and proud, walking with some people who I knew merely from protests.
It was, in its tri-lingual character, a sign of Israel's degradation and a flourishing of the whip in their faces, as a government order in English placarded in a Bengalee village might be, or a Russian ukase in Warsaw. Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI
The street before them was packed with a crowd of placard-waving demonstrators surrounding the theatre entrance. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
People bearing placards and tracts appeared outside the assembly halls.
The marchers carried placards threatening to take strike action during the examination period.
The first: At a demonstration in Berlin, our German comrades I do not use the word facetiously, only sadly hoisted a placard reading, Dresden 1945, Baghdad 2003: the same crime. Philocrites: August 2003 Archives
They chanted anti-government slogans and carried placards denouncing the war profiteers.
The second was the arrogant and presumptuous assertion on the placards that it is their NHS. Times, Sunday Times
The following week, I called Ari to suggest that blocks of the former Berlin Wall be acquired by whatever means was necessary, then divided into pieces in several sizes but each containing at least part of a "freedom graffiti" as I called them, and that each piece be marketed in a plastic container with a tombstone-shaped cardboard placard inserted which would read: The Berlin Wall: 1961-1989. And the Berlin Wall Came Tumbling Down!
Similarly, a placard carrying a message on road safety has been displayed at the Time Keeper's office in every depot.
About 500 demonstrators, carrying placards and banners, protested the execution, while a half-dozen or so death penalty supporters were on hand, some waving confederate flags.
The soi-disant communists seemed not a whit dismayed, as if this always happened to their placards. LOST CHILDREN
At Rio's Leblon beach, the promenade is cluttered with placards showing larger than life pictures of politicians with very sincere faces. Brazil in Grip of Historic Vote
The workers waved placards during an hour-long public demonstration in the central city, and will continue doing so twice a week.
By the end they're in face masks and walking towards lines of riot police holding placards and clubs. Times, Sunday Times
After the meeting, the farmers staged a placard demonstration from the park to the corporation's Ramdass Street chamber, where they met with officials.
Placards not yet on duty are held at a slope, at rakish angles over shoulders.
Placards wafered in the windows announced that the old house was to let. The Newcomes
He helped me make my own placard to carry on a Gulf war march. Times, Sunday Times
The extended nose includes a 20-cu-ft baggage compartment that, like the existing 22-cu-ft rear baggage compartment, is placarded for 200 lb.
Rex rang the doorbell beneath a placard that read: Dr. Juan Ramirez. MINUTES TO BURN
Teachers carried banners and placards calling for the right to organise and to strike.
this was no rent-a-crowd chanting demands or brandishing placards
Police managed to put out the flames but failed to stop protesters from burning placards with slogans criticising the North's nuclear programme. Times, Sunday Times
In revenge, Steno placarded the doge's chair with some scurrilous verses upon the young dogaressa, and Faliero referred the matter to "the Forty. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
The Metro stations are tidy, the advertising placards on the walls are artistic and very French.
The placard reinforced the ethical, ontological and epistemological premises on which Browne's work is based.
A placard placed near the motorway read: 'Cameron. The Sun
Posters and placards spelled out the nation's gratitude. The Sun
The FAA said April 9 that it has proposed assessing a $380,000 civil penalty against Frontier Airlines for operating hundreds of flights with several aircraft that were not equipped with the proper overwing emergency exit placards. BNET Articles
He is in Rome also," said Madame Bozier, "I saw his name placarded in the streets only yesterday, and also outside one of the leading theatres. The Master-Christian
Posters and placards spelled out the nation's gratitude. The Sun
From time to time the city was placarded with the proclamations of organized labour — these had been printed months before, and evidenced how thoroughly the I.L.W. had prepared for the strike. THE DREAM OF DEBS
I recall the jubilant ring of Ben Hill as, lifting an old placard on The old South,
Countless dozens held anti-war placards, banners and notes - some hastily scribbled on school notepads - encouraging passing motorists to honk their horn in support.
They waved placards and chanted the slogans that are doing the rounds this week. Times, Sunday Times
The protestors were carrying banners and placards and they were raising slogans against the government and the security forces.
Scores of other women lurking on the nearby pavements streamed in to join them, hoisting placards demanding action to end the cholera epidemic. Times, Sunday Times
Each person was forced to sign an agreement not to carry placards or banners, shout slogans, or wear clothes with written words of complaint.
Such are the written placards wafered up in the gentlemen’s dressing – room, or the green – room (where there is any), at a private theatre; and such are the sums extracted from the shop – till, or overcharged in the office expenditure, by the donkeys who are prevailed upon to pay for permission to exhibit their lamentable ignorance and boobyism on the stage of a private theatre. Sketches by Boz
Hundreds of students demonstrated outside the court, carrying placards calling anaesthetist Richard Gladwell McGown racist and urging the court to impose a long jail term. ANC Daily News Briefing
The campaign put its SMS "short code" on T-shirts, online ads and rally placards.
Fear of the disease then justified measures ranging from placarding houses to forced isolation of patients in special institutions.
They placarded the walls with advertisements for power-loom weavers. Mary Barton
Pictures of the occasion were placarded throughout Eastern Europe.
For example : R 2 service door escape slide operation placard is lifting.
MMABATHO April 23 Sapa Bophuthatswana Police were unable to say on Wednesday night if 40 African National Congress Youth League members were arrested during a placard demonstration in Mmabatho. ANC Daily News Briefing
Pilots were instructed to observe placarded dive speeds and angles and to watch for nose-heaviness and buffeting which were the first indications of compressibility.
Famously, this film was banned in Swansea but not in Cardiff, so busloads of eager Welsh heathen were transported daily betwixt the two heaving metropolises to watch it, then placarded on their return.

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