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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To the back of the queue cutie goes.
—Joseph Trinidad, Longreads, 16 June 2026
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Kicked out to join the back of the queue again.
—Noe Padilla, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
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Here's what to know, and how to join the queue to get them.
—Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
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The queue for vans was growing.
—Jane Bua, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
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Sometimes there was even a queue.
—David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
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Each person brings their own queue.
—Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 26 June 2026
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The long bill was pushed to the bottom of the queue.
—Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 9 Apr. 2026
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There’s a signing that goes on, and there’s a queue.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 11 Aug. 2025
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Pack the car, queue up the playlist and prep your camera roll.
—Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 29 Apr. 2026
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Say a mid-sized law firm found a phishing email in its queue.
—Michael Flannery, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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There was a queue outside the Lego shop.
—Mark Littler, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
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Now Costco has joined the queue.
—Alina Selyukh, NPR, 2 Dec. 2025
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This is a tough queue for a couple of reasons.
—Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2026
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Who is buying them if the queue in not going through?
—Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2026
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There's a lot of data centers in the queue now.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 23 Mar. 2026
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The queue of reasons is longer than a hockey stick.
—Beth Rankin, Denver Post, 20 May 2026
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The queue of reasons is longer than a hockey stick.
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 19 May 2026
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Waiting in queues can be agony for little kids.
—Robert Niles, Oc Register, 16 Sep. 2025
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Siri, queue up Friday (both the song and the movie)!
—Ronnie Li, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
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Here are 12 true-crime shows to add to your queue for your next night in.
—Gia Yetikyel, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2023
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Buy your tickets online ahead of the show to avoid a long queue.
—Vicki Salemi, Chron, 28 Jan. 2023
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Their podcast queue is sixteen hours deep.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
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The mountain bike trails are a muddy churn with hour-long queues at the top.
—Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 10 Sep. 2025
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There is a long queue of solar and wind projects waiting for this kind of study.
—Lila Levinson, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2023
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Four weeks later, Part 2 will hit queues and be told in six episodes.
—Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 9 Oct. 2023
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Then the operator moves on to study the next project in the queue.
—Brad Plumer, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
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Pack the snacks, queue up a playlist and let the kids help pick which landmark to visit first.
—Lauren Schuster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Apr. 2026
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The ticket queues keep growing.
—Muddu Sudhakar, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2025
- The crowd was queuing at the snack bar.
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It’s already queued up in his head.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 24 Nov. 2025
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Packs of adults queued for rides, with no children in sight.
—Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2025
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Oh, and don't forget to queue up an old-school playlist to match.
—Christopher Michel, Country Living, 21 Sep. 2022
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The House didn’t yet have a short-term spending bill queued up.
—Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
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Taxis do not queue at Chatsworth, so they must be called for return.
—Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
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People were queueing up for two hours.
—Katie Silver, NPR, 28 Mar. 2026
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So pour yourself a drink, curl up, and queue up your favorite movie.
—Vulture, 17 Feb. 2021
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Who's ready to queue up the hit and sail away with us to another world?
—Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2020
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So pour yourself a drink, curl up, and queue up your favorite rom-com.
—Vulture, 2 Mar. 2021
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Thousands died queuing for medicines.
—Helena Carpio, Time, 16 Jan. 2026
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Last year, when supply chain wrangles were at their worst, the port saw dozens of ships queue up.
—Michael E. Kanell, ajc, 26 July 2022
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Got my playlist queued, my heart rate's high, going to run this mile, going to touch the sky.
—Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 15 June 2023
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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.
—Catharine Hamm, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2021
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Last year’s in-demand containers are back, but folks won’t need to queue up.
—Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2023
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This sight is well worth queueing up for — or, buy your ticket in advance to save time.
—Jamie Ditaranto, Travel + Leisure, 21 July 2023
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All the more reason to queue up the source of their inspiration.
—Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Aug. 2023
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Everything is working, but had to queue for fuel for an hour.
—Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 24 Feb. 2022
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Last month, people queued to talk to her after a conference.
—Big Think, 18 Mar. 2026
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Fans began to queue outside the ballpark more than six hours before the first pitch.
—Andy McCullough, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
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There were people queueing up around the block for extra tickets.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 21 Apr. 2023
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Supporters queued up outside the prison to show their support.
—Kaya Genç, The Dial, 9 June 2026
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People would queue up, sometimes for hours, to obtain this service.
—Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022
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The stage manager queued us in at 15 seconds.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025
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Platforms will indicate with floor markings where to queue.
—Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
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Those who arrived toward the end of that match wound up queueing* in the sun for nearly four hours to get in.
—Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 30 Jan. 2026
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Ask the thousands who queue up days before a new Apple product launch.
—Michael Peres, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2022
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Our best ingenues would queue to star as Dora and Nora.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
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The City types that usually queue for its sizzling cuts were forced to go without.
—The Economist, 25 June 2020
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The visitors sang of Wembley as the hosts queued to leave.
—Beren Cross, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2026
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