How to Use queue in a Sentence
- We were forced to stand in a queue.
- Three jobs remain in the printer queue.
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Users should form a line... and get in the queue for Amazon Q.
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Adrian Bridgwater,
Forbes,
28 Nov. 2023
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Here are 12 true-crime shows to add to your queue for your next night in.
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Gia Yetikyel,
Vogue,
10 Dec. 2023
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Then the operator moves on to study the next project in the queue.
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Brad Plumer,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2023
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The stacks of narrow boxes are like coffins in a queue.
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Danyel Smith,
New York Times,
8 Aug. 2023
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Behold the Maseratis in the queue: eager to race, forced to idle.
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Rico Gagliano,
New York Times,
3 Aug. 2023
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Buy your tickets online ahead of the show to avoid a long queue.
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Vicki Salemi,
Chron,
28 Jan. 2023
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The best part: Because there’s no counter, there’s no queue of any kind.
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John Vorwald,
Robb Report,
23 Oct. 2023
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Still, simply being in the queue allowed Maryam and her husband to stay and work in the US.
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Hiawatha Bray,
BostonGlobe.com,
7 Apr. 2023
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Netflix will then send up to 10 random discs based on the movies in the subscriber’s queue.
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Jay Peters,
The Verge,
22 Aug. 2023
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Still looking for more great titles to add to your queue?
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WIRED,
15 Feb. 2023
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Four weeks later, Part 2 will hit queues and be told in six episodes.
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Janine Henni,
Peoplemag,
9 Oct. 2023
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The birds are chirping, the bees are buzzing, and your TV watching queue is getting longer.
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Kelly Lawler,
USA TODAY,
25 Mar. 2024
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There is a long queue of solar and wind projects waiting for this kind of study.
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Lila Levinson,
Dallas News,
2 Aug. 2023
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Beware that as the morning arrives, the queue, even for this line, can get long.
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Gabriele Regalbuto,
Fox News,
6 Mar. 2024
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And that's simply because there's a queue, there's a line, and these people are in that line.
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Taylor Wilson,
USA TODAY,
2 Mar. 2023
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Now, this Mars mission has moved up in the queue to be first in line on the New Glenn manifest.
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Stephen Clark,
Ars Technica,
22 Nov. 2023
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Wait It Out: As a last resort, wait for your queue to expire.
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Chad Murphy,
The Enquirer,
8 Mar. 2024
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Shoppers looking to buy or pick up a gun from the store scan a QR code to be placed in a waiting queue.
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oregonlive,
3 Dec. 2022
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The line at the box office was so long that by noon, the arena urged fans to stay at home instead of joining the queue.
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Mary Colurso | [email protected],
al,
2 Mar. 2023
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Guests will earn more about it all in the ride's queue, which Disney Parks revealed will smell like beignets.
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Eve Chen,
USA TODAY,
12 Apr. 2023
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Guests get the first taste of this at the end of the queue which winds through sleek and futuristic corridors.
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Caroline Reid,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2023
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Bring on the sequel! 2 For a horror film that meets the moment, queue up Bodies to the third power.
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Deanna Janes,
Harper's BAZAAR,
4 Aug. 2023
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There are 64 booked and 68 non-booked vessels in the queue waiting to transit as of Friday night.
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Amaris Encinas,
USA TODAY,
30 Aug. 2023
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Cases left behind were redistributed and sent to the back of the queue.
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Lisa Rein,
Washington Post,
5 Dec. 2022
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Before the company shut down the sale, there were over a million fans in the ticket queue.
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Rachel Shin,
Fortune,
14 July 2023
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Get ready to wait in a long queue during hanami season.
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Leilani Marie Labong,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Mar. 2023
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This can also give you a buffer if there's a hefty queue at the charging station.
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Jennifer Prince,
Southern Living,
22 Jan. 2023
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Armed gangs are taking over the streets of Gaza City, fistfights and stabbings are commonplace in long queues for food, and the occasional aid trucks that arrive must brave mobs of looters.
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Taylor Luck,
The Christian Science Monitor,
12 Mar. 2024
- The crowd was queuing at the snack bar.
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The House didn’t yet have a short-term spending bill queued up.
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Marianna Sotomayor,
Washington Post,
27 Sep. 2023
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Oh, and don't forget to queue up an old-school playlist to match.
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Christopher Michel,
Country Living,
21 Sep. 2022
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Even in death, some have to queue for their resting place.
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Maggie Levantovskaya,
Longreads,
31 Aug. 2023
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Who's ready to queue up the hit and sail away with us to another world?
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Perri Ormont Blumberg,
Southern Living,
24 Aug. 2020
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It’s not too late to queue up the perfect playlist of Halloween songs for your spooky fete.
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Jennifer Aldrich,
Country Living,
28 Oct. 2022
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Better to call it a day, grab some dinner, check in, bed down and queue up a movie for the kids.
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Catharine Hamm,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2021
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If this repeats next year, then queue up the scapegoats.
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BostonGlobe.com,
17 May 2021
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All the more reason to queue up the source of their inspiration.
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Deanna Janes,
Harper's BAZAAR,
28 Aug. 2023
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Taxis do not queue at Chatsworth, so they must be called for return.
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Washington Post,
22 Oct. 2021
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Got my playlist queued, my heart rate's high, going to run this mile, going to touch the sky.
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Philip Ellis,
Men's Health,
15 June 2023
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So pour yourself a drink, curl up, and queue up your favorite movie.
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Vulture,
17 Feb. 2021
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Last year, when supply chain wrangles were at their worst, the port saw dozens of ships queue up.
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Michael E. Kanell,
ajc,
26 July 2022
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So pour yourself a drink, curl up, and queue up your favorite rom-com.
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Vulture,
2 Mar. 2021
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People queued up early in the morning in long lines to get a tasty plate from one of the 22 food vendors.
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Natallie Rocha,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Sep. 2023
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Fans from across the country — and around the world — queued outside the midtown venue in KISS merchandise and face paint.
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Joe Kottke,
NBC News,
3 Dec. 2023
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The event led hundreds to queue up for hours in a line that snaked through the West Village streets for what appeared to be longer than a mile.
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Chris Gardner,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Sep. 2023
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On Mother’s Day, customers queue up to three hours for a table.
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BostonGlobe.com,
15 Apr. 2021
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At Lower Antelope Canyon, visitors queue up on top of the canyon to await their turn to walk down the steps and through the slot.
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Melissa Yeager,
The Arizona Republic,
12 Aug. 2021
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This sight is well worth queueing up for — or, buy your ticket in advance to save time.
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Jamie Ditaranto,
Travel + Leisure,
21 July 2023
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Last year’s in-demand containers are back, but folks won’t need to queue up.
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Dewayne Bevil,
Orlando Sentinel,
13 Jan. 2023
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The City types that usually queue for its sizzling cuts were forced to go without.
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The Economist,
25 June 2020
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The account also posted a picture of the NFL player queuing up to try one of their hot dogs.
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Kirsty Hatcher,
Peoplemag,
10 Nov. 2023
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Ask the thousands who queue up days before a new Apple product launch.
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Michael Peres,
Rolling Stone,
17 Nov. 2022
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Voting was to end at 9 p.m., but by law, polling stations stayed open to accept all who queued up, and the last one closed at 5 a.m. Monday.
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Tomek Rolski,
ABC News,
16 Oct. 2023
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The music supervisor queued up the choo choo of a freight train, the clanging of an old-timey clock, and a chorus of pigeon coos.
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Rachel Syme,
The New Yorker,
18 Sep. 2023
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Drivers will be allowed to queue up for the exit for two miles rather than the few hundred yards for the existing ramp.
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Kenneth R. Gosselin,
courant.com,
20 May 2021
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There were people queueing up around the block for extra tickets.
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Zack Sharf,
Variety,
21 Apr. 2023
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The weather in Iowa was already not great, but people queued outside for six hours, then waited inside for three more for Trump to take the stage.
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Antonia Hitchens,
The New Yorker,
15 Jan. 2024
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Some people go there every week and just have the same cut of meat, and then there are people who queue for two hours and have big meals with empanadas and morcilla and all the different cuts.
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Megan Spurrell,
Condé Nast Traveler,
21 Mar. 2024
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