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queue

[kyoo] / kju /


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Once on the other side of the queue, people can buy up to six tickets per transaction after paying a deposit.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 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

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

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Iaided in the pounding of boiled clothes; I translated dull tags; I daily ran my fingers through Mr. Sharpe’s hair, greasing it and feeding his graying queue into a bag.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

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

Long online queues formed for the first tranche of tickets released on July 1, which were snapped up within hours.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 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

Snaking queues formed at the departure halls in Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Monday as stranded passengers sought refunds and tried to get updates on when they would be able to fly.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 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

Application fees will also rise 20-fold from Thursday and at one immigration office in central Tokyo visited by AFP this week hundreds of people queued, hoping to wrap up procedures before the price spike.

From Barron's ● Oct. 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

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

As I queued up, people kept glancing at me.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

"This new virtual queuing approach has been designed in response to that feedback."

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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

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

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

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




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