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Walk out   /wɔk aʊt/   Listen
Walk out

verb
1.
Stop work in order to press demands.  Synonym: strike.  "The employees walked out when their demand for better benefits was not met"
2.
Leave abruptly, often in protest or anger.
3.
Leave suddenly, often as an expression of disapproval.



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"Walk out" Quotes from Famous Books



... favourable moment. 'What vigour! what light and shade!' he exclaimed, inaudibly. 'If I can get him in only half as vigorously as he sits there, the portrait will beat every thing I have done: he will walk out of the canvass. What extraordinary features; what depth in the lines and furrows! he repeated to himself, redoubling his fervour at every stroke, as he observed trait after trait rapidly transferring itself to the canvass. But, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 • Various

... fond of the water was that in it alone she enjoyed any freedom. For she could not walk out without a cortege, consisting in part of a troop of light horse, for fear of the liberties which the wind might take with her. And the king grew more apprehensive with increasing years, till at last he would not allow her to walk abroad without some twenty silken cords fastened to as many parts ...
— Adela Cathcart, Vol. 1 • George MacDonald

... about twelve or fourteen years of age. Soon after preparing his camp and laying in his supplies for the winter, he was taken sick and lay a long time in camp. The horses were hobbled out on the range. After a period of stormy weather, there came a pleasant and delightful day, and Boone felt able to walk out. With his staff—for he was quite feeble—he took the boy to the summit of a small eminence and marked out the ground in shape and size of a grave, and then ...
— Daniel Boone - The Pioneer of Kentucky • John S. C. Abbott

... tune in my own singing (such as it is), I never can compose for it. My way is: I consider the poetic sentiment correspondent to my idea of the musical expression, then choose my theme, begin one stanza; when that is composed, which is generally the most difficult part of the business, I walk out, sit down now and then, look out for objects in nature around me that are in unison or harmony with the cogitations of my fancy, and workings of my bosom; humming every now and then the air, with the verses I have framed. When I feel my muse beginning to jade, I ...
— The Letters of Robert Burns • Robert Burns

... talked of the possible storm, and the coming Christmas season, and of school, as they hurried along. It was a long walk out the Buckshot Road until they came in sight of ...
— The Corner House Girls at School • Grace Brooks Hill


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