a queue grows
Frequency: 6.48.1 per million words
A line becomes longer.
Categories:
Examples (10)
- The queue for tickets started to grow rapidly as the concert time approached.
- Every morning, the queue at the coffee shop grows longer and longer.
- We watched as the queue for the new iPhone grew overnight.
- Due to the sudden rain, the queue for taxis grew significantly.
- If we don't open more registers, the queue will only grow further.
- The queue at the border crossing has been growing steadily for hours.
- The manager noticed the queue was growing and opened another service window.
- By lunchtime, the queue at the cafeteria usually grows quite long.
- Despite their best efforts, the queue continued to grow.
- The sight of the growing queue made some people give up and leave.