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as in line
a series of persons or things arranged one behind another join the queue to my left if you need to return merchandise

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verb

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Recent Examples of queue
Noun
People queue up at Trader Joe's during the Coronavirus Pandemic in New York City. Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025 Why do people queue up for a $20 smoothie when protein shakes cost $3? Billee Howard, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Verb
With wait time ranging from 30 minutes to an hour, visitors can also skip the queue and head to the tea gift shop, where tea tasters are priced from 12,500 South Korean won, or $9, to 36,000 South Korean won, or $25. Denni Hu, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025 So queue up your road trip playlist and get ready for the experience of a lifetime. Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 7 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for queue
Recent Examples of Synonyms for queue
Noun
  • The percentage indicates how much of the fire perimeter has been surrounded by a control line.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Even in a game when rookie left tackle Josh Simmons was a late scratch because of an unspecified personal matter, the offensive line with Jaylon Moore filling in for Simmons was virtually seamless.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The new video shows the moments directly after the crash as more than a dozen drivers and other good Samaritans rush to the wreckage of the helicopter, line up side by side and then lift the aircraft up.
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Prescott immediately signaled for Williams to line up in the backfield.
    Ted Nguyen, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Video from the area around the Ufa refinery in Bashkortostan, a Russian region in the southern Ural Mountains, showed a column of dark smoke rising from the plant following the attack.
    Tim Lister, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
  • One image showed a massive column of people moving north along the territory’s coastline, by vehicle and on foot.
    Greg Norman , James Levinson, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In other hands, this would cue a standard disease-of-the-week weepie, but Coixet keeps the tone lightly wistful and wise, and trains her attention ever more minutely on Rohrwacher, who along with her character, seems to blossom gradually under this steady gaze.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
  • So, cue the sound of sizzling beef tallow and check out what might be in store.
    Will Stone, NPR, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • His landscapes are muddy and void, prone to sudden invasion by disturbing strangers, including the giant whale carcass that arrives on a train at the beginning of his 1989 novel, The Melancholy of Resistance.
    Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The skirt of the dress also included a short train.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The doctors and the cat file out, leaving the dog alone.
    Bruce Headlam, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Prosecutors in Arapahoe and Weld counties filed at a lower rate than in Denver.
    Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Tuttle grows more than 30 varieties of apples in orchards split up across the 200-acre farm, about a quarter of the acreage is devoted to long rows of apple trees.
    Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The results weren't perfect — for the third quarter in a row, Wells Fargo missed the consensus estimate for NII, a crucial revenue source for traditional banks.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • PacBio says a single Revio can sequence about four entire human genomes in a 24-hour period for less than $1,000 per genome.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The numbers aren’t hidden, any more than the DNA of humans is hidden from someone who had their genome sequenced.
    Nate Soares, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Queue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/queue. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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