cue card

Example Sentences

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“We’ve used that cue card, like, 15 times.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2025

Magill even released a video in which she looked like a hostage being forced to mouth words from a cue card.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 11, 2023

He may have had to read a line off a cue card.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2023

Forced to stay, he displayed his typical incompetence, mistakenly reading the entirety of a cue card aloud on the air: "We'll stay on the air until a winner is declared. Take off glasses, look concerned."

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2023

Ms. Whitlock exclaimed like she was reading it off a cue card.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds