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Collocations for queue - noun

ADJ.

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.

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!

QUEUE + VERB

form | build up, grow
Long queues are building up on most of Britain''s motorways.
move
The queue''s not moving at all.
stretch
The queue stretched for more than a mile.

PREP.

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

PHRASES

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

Collocations for queue - verb

ADV.

patiently | up
People queued up outside.

VERB + QUEUE

have to

PREP.

for
We had to queue for tickets.

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