cue card
Example Sentences
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We're shown the cue card hub backstage, which has been set up by Wally Feresten, a legend in the business who has worked on SNL for more than 30 years.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026
He may have had to read a line off a cue card.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
Forced to stay, he displayed his typical incompetence, mistakenly reading the entirety of a cue card aloud on the air: "We'll stay on the air until a winner is declared. Take off glasses, look concerned."
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2023
A few hours before the last episode of the season Saturday, the TV show’s Instagram account posted a cue card saying, “we’ll miss you, Cecily.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2022
Ms. Whitlock exclaimed like she was reading it off a cue card.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
