queue

Definition:
1. A line of people or vehicles waiting for something.
2. (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted.
3. A braid of hair at the back of the head.
4. Form a queue, form a line, stand in line.

Use 'queue' in a sentence:

• 1. With the opening of the visitor centre, sightseers will pass through metal detectors and queue up for tours amid air conditioning and plentiful lavatories.
• 2. We could all be in the dole queue on Monday.
• 3. If we had booked a table earlier, we wouldn't be standing here in a queue.
• 4. Senators and representatives use private elevators, lest they have to queue with their constituents.
• 5. I had to queue for quite a while.
• 6. I watched as he got a tray and joined the queue.
• 7. The queue for places at the school has never been longer.
• 8. People, usually migrants from rural areas and jobless citizens, are hired to queue up for different types of tickets in large cities in return for a pittance.
• 9. On the phone browser, you can save to this queue in the cloud.
• 10. I queued for two hours to get a ticket to see the football game.
• 11. In other cases, however, capacity should expand to keep the queue short.
• 12. First in the queue were two Japanese students.
• 13. There was still a queue for tickets on the night.
• 14. If you jump the queue, how will other drivers feel?
• 15. You simply create a queue, then drop and retrieve messages on it.
• 16. Another 29,100 people have joined the dole queue.
• 17. As customers began to queue, Mr. Azar reached beneath the counter for a black plastic bag.
• 18. It would be too tiresome to wait in the queue.
• 19. The food queues have become a daily occurrence across the country.
• 20. Queue here for taxis.
• 21. I escorted the older woman to the queue at the cash register and then stepped back and lingered near the younger woman.
• 22. Manchester United would be at the front of a queue of potential buyers.
• 23. Put the socket in a working queue.
• 24. How long were you in the queue?
• 25. Every time we get a new delivery of clothes, people are queuing to snap them up.
• 26. If you are in a queue of traffic, then don't try to push past the cars in front of yours.
• 27. Behind him was a long queue of angry motorists.
• 28. Queue-jumpe is a kind of rudeness rather than a sin.
• 29. Make sure you join the queue inside the bank.
• 30. Seeing people queuing for food was a novelty.
• 31. In the previous section, you configured a shared work path and set up an MI queue manager, so you can move on to third step.
• 32. There's usually always massive queue because it's good.
• 33. Queues were already forming outside the theatre.
• 34. The OPTN's leaders voted on June 10th to let children seeking a spot in the adult queue appeal to an internal review board.
• 35. Even though the task takes longer, the bottleneck is removed and tokens no longer queue up.
• 36. People have to stand in a queue for hours to buy a ticket.
• 37. There are already long queues of vehicles at petrol pumps.
• 38. How long were you in the queue ?
• 39. Single parents got priority in the housing queue.
• 40. This is called "jumping the queue".
• 41. I had to join a queue for the toilets.
• 42. There was a queue of traffic waiting to turn right.
• 43. I joined the end of the queue.
• 44. I chose to use an initiation queue per host instead of per agent.
• 45. Your print job has been sent to the network print queue.
• 46. Your print job has already been sent from your PC to the network print queue.
• 47. We had to queue up for an hour for the tickets.
• 48. The prince refused to jump the queue for treatment at the local hospital.
• 49. Children clutching empty bowls form a queue.
• 50. With run time for most applications lasting days or weeks, the queue fills up quickly.
• 51. Some cultures are too adept at lining up: a citizen of the former Soviet Union would join a queue just so he could get to the head of that queue and see what everyone was queuing for.
• 52. Should load exceed the capacity of the system, messages will queue up irrespective of the maximum messages value.
• 53. The queue gradually shuffled forward.
• 54. The queues at the door wound around the building.
• 55. A queue forms outside Peter's study.
• 56. The system queues the jobs before they are processed.