Definition: 1. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech. 2. Evidence that helps to solve a problem. 3. A stimulus that provides information about what to do. 4. Sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards.
Use 'cue' in a sentence:
1. Cue ominous theme music from Dragnet.
2. Cue yet more difficult negotiations.
3. Kevin arrived right on cue to care for Harry.
4. He's a genius with a cue in his hands, he's Ronnie O'Sullivan!
5. Mr. Nixon took a cue from it.
6. "But be sure the cue is clear and available," he cautions.
7. Movement can also be an important spatial cue.
8. The actor missed his cue and came onto the stage late.
9. Investors are taking their cue from the big banks and selling dollars.
10. As if on cue, the pet cat started crying and squirming on the floor, clutching its belly3.
11. Venus isn't even that interesting to look at: a boring cue ball for backyard astronomers, its clouds reflects 75% of visible light.
12. Coloration provides a visual cue for the identification, organization, and management of key process elements.
13. He chalked his billiard cue again and again.
14. The actors not performing sit at the side of the stage in full view, waiting for their cues.
15. "Be sure the cue is clear and available," he cautions.
16. I had never known him miss a cue.
17. He said his mother would be back very soon and, right on cue, she walked in.
18. On cue, the father felt something.
19. That may be a hint that yawn evolved as a social cue—"time for us all to go to bed".
20. I get down to a certain card and I am stumped, so I will leave a space waiting for that card to appear on cue.
21. That was Nicholas's cue to ask for another chocolate chip cookie.
22. These make alcohol less easy to get and reduce the number of psychological cues to drink.
23. 'It's almost eight o'clock.' As if on cue the bell in the chapel began to toll for Matins.
24. When she coughs, it's my cue to come onto the stage.
25. As the Victorians understood, if you want to change your life, don't just look for a clever cue.
26. Taking his cue from his companion, he apologized for his earlier display of temper.
27. You can take a cue from GCC: maintain many sets of environment variables per application and switch from one pool to another depending on the work at-hand.
28. He often takes his cue from the boss.
29. Without the external cue, the difference accumulates and so the internally regulated activities of the biological day drift continuously, like the tides, in relation to the solar day.
30. 'Where is that boy?' As if on cue, Simon appeared in the doorway.
31. Jon's arrival was a cue for more champagne.
32. The safety cue was a small circle.
33. That was the cue for several months of intense bargaining.
34. Every time you feel the cue for a snack, insert another routine.
35. He read the scene, with Seaton cueing him.
36. The indentation gives you a visual cue as to which lines are related to each other.
37. Researchers have also come to understand the structure of habits—cue, routine, reward.
38. We can take the cue from our fears and plunge the world into chaos.
39. I think that's my cue to explain why I'm here.
40. She stood in the wings and waited for her cue to go on.
41. Can you cue me when you want me to begin speaking?
42. If you leave running shorts on the floor at night, that'll be a cue to go running in the morning.
