queue
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"Normally there's a queue, even out at sea, waiting for a berth."
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
In the microbiology lab, she prepares the stacks of samples piling up in the queue for examination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Offer water: Set up a water station separate from the bar so people don't have to queue.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
The regulator said the projects would have to hit key milestones to keep their place in the grid connection queue, which has seen a surge in demand.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
They tightened their embrace and went on kissing while people edged past them in the queue.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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The situation had eased at the end of July, but queues and local shortages of some fuel types have reemerged in Moscow in recent days.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Tickets went on sale Tuesday and were going briskly, with digital wait times reported of more than four hours in queues with as many as 13,000 guests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Some European airports have seen hours-long queues at passport control.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
This week, Ryanair said "the failed EES rollout" was causing unnecessary delays and long queues.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
"I saw the queues, the shortages, the filthiness of public lavatories, the bureaucracy, the corruption, the red tape, the rudeness of officials, the impossibility of obtaining redress when one had a complaint," he remembered.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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Cars queued on coastal roads as eclipse enthusiasts gathered on beaches from Whitstable to Goring-by-Sea.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
More than 600 people queued up outside a former burger bar on Bridge Street, Peterborough, to pick up free second-hand school clothes.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Customers queued in long lines to snap up a special-edition Harry Potter collection last year, for example.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
The islands' roughly 200,000 inhabitants have queued at petrol stations in recent days and thronged hardware stores to buy plywood and supermarkets for food, bottled water and other essentials.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
And nearby in the jungle, in the eerie, storm-coming light* animals queued up in pairs: Girlboy.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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Among the crowds queuing for a photo was Julie Sawyer and her daughter Holly, who travelled from Nottingham to pay their respects.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
But for several weeks, queuing for petrol has become a staple of life during the dragging Ukraine conflict, causing impatience at petrol stations.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Those queuing to meet her included a starstruck 21-year-old man clutching a 1980s vinyl album.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
However, compared to a premium of 38%, these are negligible and without unforeseen obstacles, hedge funds and proprietary trading desks will be queuing up to put the trade on.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
“Listen, you’re not going to have any trouble. You’re a champion. You’ve just beaten a Hungarian Horntail. I bet they’ll be queuing up to go with you.”
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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