queue
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He waited about two hours in the cashier's queue, with customers crowded inside but few staff working.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
After her van drew up, a steady queue of elderly folk formed.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 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
Gus Hall, owner of Evolution Games in Halifax, said he expected fans to queue before shops open to get their hands on the first release of the cards.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Jinjoo’s mother joined the queue but quickly shoved her way to the front.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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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
"Fuel is unavailable, there are huge queues everywhere," he told AFP from his motionless Toyota sedan after a one-and-a-half hour drive from the capital Ulaanbaatar.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 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
The issues come after a major supply outage in July saw passengers face long queues for toilets at the West Sussex airport, with restaurants and bars also closing.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
People began to form up in queues to say good-bye.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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Santosh, a 47-year-old businessman who uses one name, queued with hundreds of others as crowds set off fireworks outside while waiting for the show.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Scores of women queued at a school sheltering Nepal flood victims, jostling to receive personal-care supplies, as concerns over sanitation and menstrual hygiene mount days after the catastrophic disaster.
From Barron's ● 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
Just as one storm passed, another queued at its heels.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
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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
"This new virtual queuing approach has been designed in response to that feedback."
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
"Now they have turned against us," he told the BBC at the Burundian embassy in Nairobi where many have been queuing this week for documents to allow them to travel back home.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Another man spoke of the "extreme queuing" required to view the exhibit.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 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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