QUEUE in a Sentence

Learn QUEUE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for QUEUE, such as:

1. I had to join a queue for the toilets.
2. You'll have to join the housing queue.
3. There was a long queue at the post office.
4. There was a queue of traffic waiting to turn right.
5. Your print job has been sent to the network print queue.

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 Meanings and Examples of QUEUE
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queue
 v.  to form a line or wait in line
Classic Sentence:
1  It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new twenty-franc pieces of the Restoration, on whose effigy the little Prussian queue had replaced the laurel wreath.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES
Example Sentence:
1  There was a queue of traffic waiting to turn right.
2  I had to join a queue for the toilets.
3  You'll have to join the housing queue.
4  Your print job has been sent to the network print queue.
5  There was a long queue at the post office.
6  The sun beats down on a queue of punters outside the Espace pachinko parlour in central Tokyo; inside is an air-conditioned oasis.