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Collocations for queue - noun

→ See also line

ADJECTIVE

endless, long
growing, lengthening
orderly
Please form an orderly queue.
bus, checkout, cinema, etc.
bread, dinner, food
the country's soaring prices and growing food queues
traffic
dole
More unemployed people are joining the dole queue each week.

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VERB + queue

form, line up in
join, stand in, wait in
He had to join the queue for the toilets.
jump
Don't jump the queue—take your turn like everyone else!

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queue + VERB

form
build up, grow
Long queues are building up on the city's exit roads.
move
The queue's not moving at all.
stretch
The queue stretched for more than a mile.

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PREPOSITION

in a/the queue
the people in the queue
queue for
the queue for tickets
queue of
a long queue of shoppers

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PHRASES

the back of the queue, the end of the queue
the front of the queue, the head of the queue

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Collocations for queue - verb

ADVERB

patiently
up
People queued up outside.

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VERB + queue

have to

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PREPOSITION

for
We had to queue for tickets.

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Queue is used with these nouns as the subject:
fan

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