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How to use the word queue in a Sentence?

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It seems that stagnant period has come and stock market will not go either up or down sizeably for the next 3 to 5 years. LULL PERIOD Begin. Most Traders already quit and many are in queue to leave it

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheishmpatel_2
1 year ago

I have been in the queue for more than six hours, we spend almost six to seven hours in the line just to get petrol.

Mohammad Ali

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our daily life has been reduced to standing in a queue, when we need milk powder, there's a queue for that, if we need medication there's another queue for that.

Malkanthi Silva

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I went once or twice and the queue was just too long, and, and then eventually, we went one time, and it was doable.

Christina Frankopan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you think about International Vaccine Institute as a queue,( United Kingdom and United States) are the first countries in the queue.

Jerome Kim

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I can’t believe I’ve ever seen or heard of such a despicable, disgusting sense of entitlement and lack of a moral compass. [Referring to a top casino executive and his wife who flew from Vancouver by commercial flight and chartered aircraft 2200 km to Beaver Creek, ignoring mandatory quarantine requirements, to jump the queue for COVID-19 vaccinations. Beaver Creek is a First Nations community of 80, given vaccine priority because of its remoteness near the Alaska border.]

Mike Farnworth

added by Greying_Geezer
3 years ago

This time will be their first time. So for this time, they are entitled to receive it, they are no longer in the execution queue.

Nakhon Chompuchat

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I'm very apprehensive about what's happening right now and what's going to happen over the next few weeks to this group of our society who are extremely vulnerable, who've been exposed to adverse experiences, neglect and abuse from childhood onwards, and now risk being put at the back of the queue for support when in fact, they should be in front of it.

Alex Stevens

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Sometimes, people get to the front of the queue and then say, 'No, thank you, I am going to stay here', come on in and talk to us and we'll help you get home now.

Ian Brownlee

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Prince of Wales didn't jump the queue.

Edward Argar

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I had to get up really early to get the bus, i have never seen a queue so big.

Olga Cristancho

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It took the first voter 31 minutes to vote. For subsequent voters it was taking around five minutes and then it started to streamline to 3 minutes and 30 seconds, election commission staff looked panicked and voters were getting angry that the queue was not moving.

Nishank Motwani

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Make sure to hold your spot in the conversational queue.

Tania Luna

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I stood in a queue at 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. and by end they said there is no money.

Hanif Baba

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It gets me first place in the queue, I think when people go to so much effort it shows Warren how important he is for us.

William Robertson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

That's the message in this report, the fundamental message: Someone has got to step back and put the interests of civilians at the top of the queue for a change, we talk about the unlivability of Gaza. When you're down to two hours of power a day and you have 60 percent youth unemployment rates... that unlivability threshold has been passed quite a long time ago.

Robert Piper

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

We found that The Veterans Crisis Line leadership had not established expectations or targets for queued call times or thresholds for taking action on queue times. A veteran could be queued for 30 minutes, for example, and that wait time might not be reflected in hold time data ; however, the result of the delay is the same, whether the veteran was in a queue or on hold.

The IG

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The' back of the queue' statement will be forgotten by the next administration, if not sooner, in my view, TTIP is either dormant or dead in the wake of Brexit.

Gary Hufbauer

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It's not racism. It's just that we've been pushed to the back of the queue, it's like you've had the fun, let these people come in and have a little bit ... a piece of the pie. But the pie is getting increasingly smaller.

Sajaad Ahmed

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

( The 2015 Pan-American Games in) Toronto was perfect with all the athletes in a modern village but now it will be multiplied by five continents and other greats, seeing top basketball players, golfers,( sprinter) Usain Bolt with Gomez Cora little tray next to you in the meal queue, i'd be happy to stay there for two hours, you usually curse when a queue is long but I'd want it to be eternal and it's not a forced situation, it's natural and you're all there as equals.

Gomez Cora

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

People will only queue on day one, after that Starbucks needs to be good enough to compete with the coffee shops that are already around here.

Prince Ndlovu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I wanted to queue myself and not pay so much money, but I just couldn't wait any more. I didn't have time.

Zhang Pengyu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We've slept here in the queue since yesterday night but there is no fuel, i voted for APC for change, but ... is this the change? This is very painful.

Thomas Udoh

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Maduro's measures won't solve this crisis, it's too late, today, for instance, the queue is longer than it was yesterday.

Maria Hernandez

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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