Sample Sentences for
queue
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queue as in:  in the queue

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    People have already begun to queue up at the box office.
    queue = line
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    Universal Studios started using virtual queues so people don't spend all day waiting in lines.
    queues = lines
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    Patients are assigned a place in a triage queue based on vital signs and primary complaint, but things can change.
    queue = line
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    I put myself in the call queue and began my twelve-hour shift.  (source)
    queue = line
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    Crowds of lower-caste workers were queued up in front of the monorail station-seven or eight hundred Gamma, Delta and Epsilon men and women, with not more than a dozen faces and statures between them.  (source)
    queued = lined
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    On the right-hand side, short queues were forming before each fireplace, waiting to depart.  (source)
    queues = lines of people
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    I knew we were better off than those who lived in the camps, queuing for food and water for hours under the hot sun, but I missed my valley.  (source)
    queuing = lining up
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    A few of the brothers were already queueing up by the token barrels as Clydas took the lid off and almost dropped it on his foot.†  (source)
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    First, Jurassic Park has all the problems of any amusement park-ride maintenance, queue control, transportation, food handling, living accommodations, trash disposal, security.  (source)
    queue = line
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    And nearby in the jungle, in the eerie, storm-coming light, animals queued up in pairs: Girlboy.†  (source)
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    She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns—endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.†  (source)
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    In the alleys, fifteen-year-old boys are making their way toward mine elevators, queuing up with their helmets and lamps outside the gates.  (source)
    queuing = lining up
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    At the squares, women who had no wells in their yards were queueing up for water at the old pumps, their yokes and buckets on the ground beside them.†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    The only TV show I had access to was a company-produced sitcom called Tommy Queue.  (source)
    Queue = a last name
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    The mayor had on a fine wig, properly powdered and pulled back, with a curl at the end of his queue, a sable coat and matching breeches, a maroon waistcoat, and a white silk cravat tied loosely around his neck, atop his shirt.  (source)
    queue = pigtail
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    I selected the first episode of Tommy Queue, then unsnapped the visor and put it on.  (source)
    Queue = a last name
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    So I stayed awake as long as I could, ignoring one episode of Tommy Queue after another.  (source)
    Queue = a last name
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    It lit up, presenting me with the same choices I'd had on my first night here: a handful of training films and simulations, including the complete run of Tommy Queue episodes.  (source)
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    If anyone checked the usage logs for my entertainment center, they would show that I watched Tommy Queue every night until I fell asleep, and that once I'd worked my way through all sixteen episodes, I'd started over at the beginning.  (source)
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