Examples of “queue” in a Sentence

noun A line of people or vehicles waiting their turn, served in the order they arrived.

• There was a long queue outside the bakery before it even opened.
• She joined the back of the queue for the rollercoaster.
• Please wait in the queue and the next cashier will call you.

noun In computing, a data structure that holds items to be processed in order, usually first-in-first-out.

• The print job sat in the queue behind three other documents.
• The program adds each new message to a queue and handles them one at a time.
• Because the queue is first-in-first-out, the oldest task is always processed first.

verb To line up and wait for a turn.

• Fans queued overnight for tickets to the concert.
• You have to queue at the counter before you can order.
• We had to queue for half an hour to get into the museum.

verb To add an item to a waiting list or processing order.

• I queued up three songs to play next.
• Please queue the next video so it starts when this one ends.
• She queued the emails to send at nine tomorrow morning.