queue

queue
01. There was a long [queue] waiting to get tickets for the train.
02. People here are so polite; in my country, no one waits in a [queue]. Everyone pushes and shoves to get to the front of the line.
03. The [queue] for the bus was so long that we were afraid we wouldn't get on.
04. I wonder if people push and shove in the [queue] to get into heaven.
05. If you want to mail your packet, you'll have to join the [queue].
06. After the children had formed an orderly [queue], they were led into the school.
07. We had to [queue] up for hours to get tickets to the championship game.
08. This is the [queue] for those who already have tickets. Those who have not yet purchased tickets need to [queue] over there.
09. The effects of culture can be witnessed in the behaviors of people waiting in a [queue].
10. Every day people [queue] in the hundreds to visit the historic site.
11. The [queue] for the concert tickets stretched out of the multiplex and down the street.
12. We spent the night on the sidewalk in front of the theater so we could be near the head of the [queue] when tickets went on sale.
13. A Moroccan proverb notes that there is no [queue] at the gate of Patience.
14. George Mikes once suggested that an Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly [queue] of one.
15. George Mikes once remarked that in shops the English stand in [queues]; in government offices they sit in [queues]; in churches they kneel in [queues]; and at sale times, they lie in [queues] all night."

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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