queue
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And every week, as the cafe's struggle becomes known, the queue for coffee gets longer.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
Amit Yair, 77, was blunter as he waited in a long queue to order coffee.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
He noted that there is “not one electron” of always-on power, sometimes referred to as baseload, in the California Independent System Operator’s interconnection queue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
In the microbiology lab, she prepares the stacks of samples piling up in the queue for examination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
As I waited at the back of the queue, several of Scott Fischer’s Sherpas caught up to us.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Long queues of people could be seen evacuating towns on foot, by motorbike and car, some piled into the back of pickup trucks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
The situation had eased at the end of July, but queues and local shortages of some fuel types have reemerged in Moscow in recent days.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Expanding on the "grim start" to travelling families, it writes, "drinking fountains were out of action", "there were queues for toilets, which could not be flushed" and "crowds were forced to sit on the floor".
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Tickets went on sale Tuesday and were going briskly, with digital wait times reported of more than four hours in queues with as many as 13,000 guests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 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
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
Cars queued on coastal roads as eclipse enthusiasts gathered on beaches from Whitstable to Goring-by-Sea.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Customers queued in long lines for a special-edition Harry Potter doughnut collection last year, for example.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
"I've queued in rain, sun and once hail... at the age we are now it is always a joy to get tickets and not have to queue," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
As I queued up, people kept glancing at me.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Most high street stores selling eclipse glasses sold out, leaving hundreds of shoppers queuing for them.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
As the mains outages take effect, people have been queuing at water tanker trucks sent to affected regions to fill up large bottles.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
But for several weeks, queuing for petrol has become a staple of life during the dragging Ukraine conflict, causing impatience at petrol stations.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Those queuing to meet her included a starstruck 21-year-old man clutching a 1980s vinyl album.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
“Listen, you’re not going to have any trouble. You’re a champion. You’ve just beaten a Hungarian Horntail. I bet they’ll be queuing up to go with you.”
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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