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    Use "queue" in a sentence

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    queue


    queued


    queues


    queuing


    1. A buffet with workers doling out steaming hospital slop lines one wall of the room as residents queue up


    2. A small queue of incongruous people had formed to the right of the entrance


    3. As he went in, the first person in the queue, a small, shabbily dressed man, stopped him


    4. "The end of the queue is back there


    5. I’m obviously still fuming when I get to where Stephen is standing in the queue for food


    6. Joshua was the next in the queue


    7. Leaving the terminal building they found the taxi stand and walked to the top of the queue


    8. " He pointed back down to the end of the long snaking queue


    9. "Did youse two not see that there's a bleedin' queue back there?" The taxi driver was small but loud, in his 40's and worried that he might not get paid


    10. The children followed in a queue and obediently

    11. A queue forms around their high roofed halls,


    12. in unbearable heat, towards the queue,


    13. Then my flight was called and I was like a schoolboy on an outing and couldn't wait to join the shuffling queue and be herded onto the compact turbo-prop of nineteen seats


    14. Most of the passengers were herded onto an old bus whereas my bit of the queue, and by that I mean myself and an older man carrying a huge cabbage, was cramped inside the rear of a much abused and dented van which was to be our very own shuttle up the mountain to Sophia


    15. He hands it to the guard as we get to the front of the queue


    16. Even with Irene and Ebby, memories would be bittersweet so, betting myself she'd never had a card from Sophia, I picked one out of the rack and wrote, 'Make yourself a home!' and joined the queue for a stamp


    17. Doesn’t look as though it’s had a lick of paint in the intervening years, either! We join the queue for ice cream


    18. Smiling at her, I wave back and join the queue at the bar


    19. Standing in the queue in the sandwich shop, yet again I try to work out what I am going to wear tonight


    20. wagon at a time, and there was a queue of skittish horses and

    21. There’s a queue in the shop


    22. Wait in the queue to buy a ticket … read the list of possible permutations – wash and wax, wash and soft wax (?), multi-colour foam and undercar scrub … a bit technical for me … only want a cleaner car


    23. length of the queue


    24. interest for those whiling away their time in the queue


    25. He joined the queue by the water trough waiting to


    26. the queue at which we stayed at the Tax Agency


    27. their powerful lights on, joining the queue in the air for Heathrow


    28. people were in the queue


    29. Sharon joined the end of a short queue for


    30. into the northbound queue

    31. The whole queue was listening now and the mention of Gallipoli had them all hooked and I could see the astonishment on some of their faces as well as on this jumped up Captains and he looked like someone had just fed him a turd as he turned to me again saying


    32. "The people in the bus queue are beginning to stare


    33. He checked his watch as Jack hurried past him and took his place at the end of the queue


    34. The queue shuffled forward


    35. Last in the queue


    36. We stood there waiting and noticed that we were not the only ones to have smelled the bacon as the queue stretched nearly back to the barn we had occupied


    37. I felt sorry for the lads at the back of the queue as even early on the water had a film of scum on it that was as hard as a pie crust and was nearly black in colour


    38. And where did it get me? On the fecking dole queue


    39. He was sat in a traffic queue thinking about how people are


    40. a fucking queue with the same car in front as the same fucking

    41. smiled and said out loud to the slow moving traffic queue


    42. The pedestrians seemed hell bent on bashing their way to the front of the queue with their trolleys and elbows


    43. They didn’t normally serve customers, it was one of those places that you had to queue and order and pay at the counter


    44. It is also whispered that I ground my P38’s firing pin away until it would not shoot and thus jumped the queue and received a brand new Z88 in its place


    45. " The American pushed his way back into the queue, then turned to address us


    46. I'm sure we have all been aware of standing in a queue and feeling uncomfortable as


    47. An elderly man promptly accepted, and she assumed his place near the head of the queue


    48. Half served travelers entering the country, who formed a queue that crossed the lobby and continued along the opposite wall


    49. ” LP and Ingrid heard the announcement and joined the queue to start their brief seven day holiday travelling through the South Island of New Zealand


    50. As they waited in the traffic queue on a steep fish hook turn, LP hesitated to look down to the one thousand metre sheer drop to the mountain floor












































    1. Russ points at a group of women queued up for water at a faucet next to the outhouse


    2. Flitter did as he was told and the children queued up and were duly served with a delicious porridge


    3. Out of the hundreds that queued at hatch 22 she knew all their times by rote


    4. Rail-thin addicts queued on a nearby corner and trailed into the alley one after the other, but Herminia was not among them, nor was there one willing to be questioned


    5. QUEUED FOR HIS DARSHAN SO I SAT IN A SMALL OFFICE AND


    6. QUEUED TO GARANLD FLOWERS ON MOTHER MARY STATUE


    7. All the soldiers, who weren’t already moving, were queued up in battalions, except for some who were tied together like prisoners or slaves


    8. All the soldiers, who weren't already moving, were queued up in battalions,


    9. A line of scarecrows queued up to load more tendrils into the trailer


    10. While the movie queued up to the main menu, I continued to look at the book cover

    11. The outlets of the pipes just happened to be where the ships anchored, when they queued at the port


    12. They joined a line of men queued up behind the women


    13. Nicky thanked the lady, gathered her new clothes, and queued to pay for her purchases


    14. They came and they bought tickets and they queued up and waited to laugh at me


    15. If a spider does not arrive within an acceptable length of time, the page is queued for resubmission


    16. Should your page be dropped, that page is queued for resubmission


    17. I walked with him into the station and we queued to pay for our fuel


    18. He found Led Zeppelin’s third album and queued it up on the


    19. the day while he flipped the record and queued it up again


    20. Masses of tourists queued outside, waiting in anticipation

    21. She walked past the queued up students toward me


    22. Tables were set up for the women to hand over their wedding bangles and necklaces and women queued up to do so or sent their sons


    23. The trim on his suit was mangy, as if it had been dug out of a dumpster, yet young mothers queued ten deep on the sidewalk, holding the hands of kids waiting to get in


    24. Nevertheless, stockbrokers queued up throughout that inexorable tumble into insolvency to recommend the shares as a good buy


    25. Even South Africa dismantled its racist apartheid regime and allowed democracy; in 1994 thousands of black South Africans queued for hours to have the chance to cast their vote for the first time in their lives


    26. Shopping in Russia was a major undertaking: People queued for hours if they heard a rumour that a loaf of bread had been seen in the window


    1. Earning for our food, rushing to work by various modes of transport, waiting in queues, communication using modern means, social responsibilities, all have been added to the man who was originally created to deal with only nature


    2. Most of the regular clubbers hit the queues outside around eleven and the punters on the early shift are still thin on the ground and coalesce into random groups


    3. queues of wagons waiting on both sides of the bridge


    4. Most of the tables were full of people sitting down and eating and there were still long queues at the chow line as people waited patiently, bowls in hand, to get some sustenance


    5. eternal queues, simply to get rid of a case he wished he hadn’t bothered with


    6. we should be sleeping, or the ridiculous queues we willing-


    7. I recently googled Hatsheput’s tomb and in a photo counted eighteen tour busses parked in front, five souvenir outlets, and noted the price of entry the long queues of visitors had to pay – about twenty dollars!


    8. When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people are plundered and exploited


    9. “There are great shortages of fuel, and long queues at the filling stations


    10. Some filling stations had two-mile long unmoving queues at the pumps, vainly waiting in case of a delivery, which they also hoped they would then be able to afford to buy when it arrived

    11. “Not so long ago,” said Will, “there would have been queues of lorries there, delivering grain from outlying farms


    12. As you know, one result was even longer queues at the cash machines


    13. Queues of people everywhere, loudspeakers giving instructions, TV screens with arrival and departure information, baggage check-in, immigration, searches for guns – everything


    14. the front of the queues quickly worked out how the allocation worked and passed


    15. gest that these poor souls assemble in long queues once more in about


    16. News sites are terrific because they carry excellent content queues for us as to what things we can


    17. The queues for luck and news


    18. The alternative would be to add each individual line with a calculator not very practical when there are long queues


    19. Queues to match those at the ladies loos began forming


    20. Needy Greeks were told in advance via the media that they were to form queues outside the many trucks that accommodated the food

    21. There is software readily available today that can monitor all e-mail and social media traffic and automatically filter it depending on the context, and place it in workflow queues for the company's staff to deal with appropriately


    22. with the victims into the queues that lined up at the Doctor's office where they were


    23. “There were long queues,” said Emeka


    24. Mornings he alternates between Madame Manec’s kitchen, the tobacco shop, and the post office, where he waits in interminable queues to use the telephone


    25. In Newcastle, the busiest coal port in the world, miles-long queues of freighters waiting to top up their holds with coal have become a common sight


    1. Were they even queuing for the Cash for Gold? There was nothing else in between that Theo could see


    2. houses sit quietly queuing for the knacker’s yard,


    3. a fifteen minute stroll away, and queuing for the car park could take longer


    4. international airport, twenty miles west, queuing in the sky for touchdown, ten or twelve of them


    5. Booker was in no doubt that Sir Craig was right when he said that other countries would be queuing up for such a drug, but now that he knew the full details and illegality involved, he wanted no part of it


    6. And as the process is virtually instantaneous it would eliminate queuing to both enter and leave the place


    7. Within seconds he was gone, back down the road and queuing at the roundabout


    8. From his position in the cockpit Grailem can only see the robots outside queuing patiently until they enter the shuttlecraft


    9. The profession needs a well coordinated and responsive queuing system


    10. But physicians who are not booked enough could be handled in a queuing system where they respond within a certain radius for a procedure if they can make an opening

    11. I think we need fewer physicians working more and a queuing system to cut down on capital expenditures for clinics, while cycling doctors to the ones in use in their area to fill out the doctor’s time to the income level he desires while helping the facility to have a higher use rate


    12. As the dark approached, the wild beasts started queuing at the shore of lust to quench their thirsts and hungers


    13. There were not too many people about, and nobody was queuing at the cash machine when they got there


    14. ‘There are many cows queuing at his door at the moment


    15. The Superintendent in charge of the Waterfront Station set up his command post in a small room near one of the entrances and at nine fifteen, too late to prevent the queuing and loud chatter from hindering the work of those who had already run the uniformed gauntlet, he went to the second floor to further brief the Secretary General and Clerk of Councils


    16. Or hundreds of poor citizens were queuing up for free soup and bread


    17. Queuing goes against the grain in Egypt


    18. thought gangsters and mobsters would be queuing up


    19. That afternoon Jeff’s telephone rang while he was queuing up another


    20. On the far side of the river, carts and traders were queuing all along the road through the suburbs as far as the eye could see

    21. In the alleys, fifteen-year-old boys are making their way toward mine elevators, queuing up with their helmets and lamps outside the gates


    22. Offers of book contracts poured in, their subscription base was growing by the minute and advertisers were queuing up to be part of it all


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    Synonyms for "queue"

    queue waiting line line up queue up hairstyle braid plait plat twist line file row cordon rank range string series

    "queue" definitions

    a line of people or vehicles waiting for something


    (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted


    a braid of hair at the back of the head


    form a queue, form a line, stand in line