queue

Example Sentences

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Passionately defending cinema on the big screen and then waiting for the next suggested movie to segue into our queue.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

At one point on Thursday the train chugged past a queue of trucks waiting for fuel -- the trains themselves run on diesel, with the state railway company maintaining its own stocks.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

At one point, travelers were being redirected across lines, instructed to bypass one queue for another, then stopped again.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2026

"When I had just one of my teeth missing, I couldn't smile and my self-confidence was going," says Carol Sherman, who was at the front of that huge queue in Bristol two years ago.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

This afternoon a familiar face looms in the train station, maybe four or five back in the queue.

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