[
US
/ˈkju/
]
[ UK /kjˈuː/ ]
[ UK /kjˈuː/ ]
VERB
-
form a queue, form a line, stand in line
Customers lined up in front of the store
NOUN
- a braid of hair at the back of the head
- (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted
- a line of people or vehicles waiting for something
How To Use queue In A Sentence
- I had to join this long queue, that snaked around a couple of times, and as each person left, a disembodied voice said, ‘Cashier number seven, please!’
- There's usually a queue outside this pizzeria right opposite Cibreo - the reason being the excellent, echt Neapolitan pizzas made with the finest ingredients.
- Private clinics providing thinly veiled opportunities for queue-jumping have expanded.
- Your finances are in tatters, your blood pressure is rising and the queue for the bank cashiers' desks is never-ending.
- Many queued for up to 30 minutes for a chance to add their signature.
- The last space shuttle accident has left a queue for the launching pad. Times, Sunday Times
- Shopping by mail order lets you beat the queues.
- The group reaches the elevator queue to find a crowd of roughly two hundred students milling about restlessly.
- At some stage in the next few weeks I'd better buy a batch of cards and start working my way through the address book and getting them into the post, with the overseas people first in the queue.
- There was a long queue at the post office.
