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queue

[kyoo] / kju /


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The company has said it replaced thousands of poles in Texas and New Mexico in 2024 and is current with its replacement queue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

There’ll be, like, one or two people there, but our team is out there working with them, and they’re usually able to get in the queue and get back indoors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

They could instead queue up on Gilt’s website in anticipation of the day’s flash sale and buy that same merchandise online.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

After a five-hour wait for petrol, Mongolian pensioner Nasanjargal is still 10 places from the pump, with dozens of cars behind him in a queue snaking into the arid steppe.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

Every minute you spent in the queue was working against your break timé.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

At night, queues snake around the block outside nightclubs where DJ’s spin thumping house music for big-spending revelers, their faces sculpted by surgery and tanned by the sun.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Tickets for the festival typically sell out in less than an hour, with thousands of fans joining online queues to fight for their place.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

In the Iranian capital, long queues formed at petrol stations after authorities said fuel quotas would be reviewed.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

Long queues formed outside fuel stations in the capital and other cities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Nora Molloy knows my mother from the queues at the St.Vincent de Paul Society.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

On Tuesday morning, dozens queued up, sometimes wrapping around the shop’s interior.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Which makes the moment when we still have to ask ourselves what sounds good feel increasingly precious: a little unoptimized space before something has been recommended, queued or dropped into a cart for us.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

The Russian capital braced Wednesday for a possible fresh wave of fuel shortages as drivers queued nervously to fill up tanks after recent Ukrainian strikes.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

Many pupils and parents queued to talk to us at two town hall meetings we arranged.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

“Randos,” I said, and instantly she had us queued for one of the new dungeons.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

Fans had begun queuing more than an hour before the doors opened.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

That led to 20 percent fewer vessels and a 17 percent drop in tonnage, not to mention longer lines of ships queuing up.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

As they were making their way to the top, he said a woman who was queuing "had a dig" and said "she'd been queuing for 40 minutes".

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

Hirst, 34, said the charity had been particularly busy this week, with people queuing outside the shop before it had opened.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

The paupers’ food line was still there, queuing up patiently around the side of the palace: the young, the old, the in-between, all just as hungry and downtrodden as ever.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood




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