Sentence examples for caught in a queue from inspiring English sources

Half the time though, you'll get caught in a queue, which essentially means you'll have to wait for people in front of you to finish downloading before you can start.

He was part dole-queue Saint Sebastian, part washing line caught in a storm.

Iraqis endure endless checkpoint queues in return for a lower chance of being caught in a blast or shoot-out.

Hundreds of minors and young adults were caught in a crush before dawn, as riot police kettled teenagers in an effort to manage queues.

They feel caught in a lull.

Quality cannot be caught in a number.

Possible measures also included minimising vehicle journeys, funding alternatives to car use, making sure low-emission modes of transport were well catered for, ensuring buses were not caught in traffic queues so that public transport could provide a quicker alternative, and use of more low-emission buses, lorries and vans.

Other received less gentle treatment - one British motorist caught in the queues described seeing CRS officers spraying the trucks with pepper spray and watching migrants "drop off like flies".

Nigel Jameson, a truck driver from Buckinghamshire, was one of those caught in the long queues for the EuroTunnel outside Calais.

Button had just finished 13th when the rear end of his Honda caught alight as he sat in a queue of cars parked in the Interlagos pit-lane entry.

We text while we're walking across the street, catch up on email while standing in a queue – and while having lunch with friends, we surreptitiously check to see what our other friends are doing.