was queuing
- past progressive of queue.
Example Sentences
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On 28 February, Cameron told the BBC she was was queuing to get into her Dubai hotel when the first Iranian missiles struck the city.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026
"It’s like they are taking money from our pockets," one delegate told BBC Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt as he was queuing up for food.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2024
“It’s not that we’re hungry. We lost our jobs because of the occupation,” said Olga Meshcherikova, who was queuing with her husband Ihor, 48, now an unemployed builder.
From Reuters ● Nov. 17, 2022
If he’d left the ball, Ander Herrera was queuing up behind him to stroke home.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 15, 2015
Irina, a middle-aged woman, was queuing at a Moscow morgue overloaded with bodies to get a death certificate to bury her mother who had died of severe heat.
From Reuters ● Aug. 9, 2010
