queue up

Frequency: 7.614.2 per million words

A common phrasal verb meaning to form a line.

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Examples (10)

  • People often queue up early for concert tickets.
  • We had to queue up for an hour to get into the museum.
  • The children will queue up at the cafeteria for lunch.
  • Customers are already queuing up outside the store for the sale.
  • Please queue up in an orderly fashion.
  • They used to queue up for bread during the war.
  • If you want to enter, you'll need to queue up with everyone else.
  • Many fans queued up all night to meet their idol.
  • The airline advised passengers to queue up at least two hours before the flight.
  • Everyone began to queue up as soon as the doors opened.