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Columbia students queue up at one entrance to show their IDs, while eligible visitors present QR codes at a separate gate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The law prohibits using software to get around ticket limits, queue and presale restrictions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

He waited about two hours in the cashier's queue, with customers crowded inside but few staff working.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

There was a small queue of homeless applicants, some of whom were from overseas.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

The queue for Chariots of Fire snaked down the cinema steps and along the street for eight or ten shops.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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

Early in the day, long queues formed outside the small St Luka church, as people waited to go in and pay their respects to the coffin.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Still, sailors said that having no Wi-Fi made communicating with family and friends challenging, since there are often queues for the shared computers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

"There are three quarters of a million people summitting annually, so queues are likely to be expected in peak times," the spokesman added.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

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.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Travellers heading into Tibet often queued there from the previous day.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

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

Dozens queued on a pontoon at Fourka waiting to flee as smoke blotted out the sky over the resorts, according to images broadcast by ERT.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

The fathers whose sons had played merited a more aggrandized status in the fraternity of older men who queued along the passageway.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

A new virtual queuing system for visitors with accessibility needs to be introduced first at Alton Towers has been praised by charities.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

Munday said he believed queuing was "Snowdon specific" due to how popular it is.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 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