queue
noun
a braid of hair worn hanging down behind.
was queuing
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past progressiveof queue.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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As they were making their way to the top, he said a woman who was queuing "had a dig" and said "she'd been queuing for 40 minutes".
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Traffic was queuing on the approach to the works on Sunday afternoon, with a diversion in place via the exit and entry slip roads.
From BBC ● Feb. 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
LBC became a trending topic on Twitter, calls flooded in, and it seemed for a moment as if half the world was queuing up to quiz, bother and berate the Lib Dem leader.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 10, 2013
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
