queue

• Not being able to decide on the sacrifice of his oily tresses or his queue, the old soldier swore he would submit to it only in case his general would himself cut off the first lock; and all the officers interested in this affair having succeeded in getting no other reply, at last reported him to the general. —  Recollections of the private life of Napoleon
• And in front of me in the queue were these two classic American rednecks with very wide necks, and one of them turned to me and said: 'Buddy, I sure feel sorry for you, because even if you haven't got anything they'll find something.' —  Keeping Up with Salman Rushdie
• We have approximately 40 vessels who are in what we call the queue. —  CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2004
• (on camera): If this queue is anything to go by, Koizumi may go down as one of the most popular leaders this country has ever had. —  CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2006
• The operations for a queue are analogous to those for a stack, the substantial differences being that insertions go at the end of the list, rather than the beginning, and that traditional terminology for stacks and queues is different. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows

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