Sentence examples for queued for water from inspiring English sources

About 10,000 people died during the 1992-96 siege, half of them civilians killed by sniper mortar and artillery fire while they crossed roads, queued for water or went to market.

Many, but not all, of the voices are German – some deeply entangled in the machinations of the Reich (soldiers of every rank, a telephonist in Hitler's bunker, or Hitler himself), others are involved only collaterally: a postal official, a teenaged seminarian, a nameless woman queuing for water at the city pump.

Housewives queue for bread, water and petrol.

It seems incongruous that somebody can own a mobile phone, yet has to waste hours queuing for drinking water.

In the lounge, I queued for a bottle of water behind To Potami MP Gregory Psarianos.

When online queues for "Water" reach, oh, the 150,000-waitlist point, it is safe to return to charred residential areas.

It wasn't just women who gossiped in the queues for water: it was a community event.

Khan has tried different methods to provoke a response: he's written letters, demonstrated on the streets and waited in long queues for water tankers, at times getting into a fracas with other water-starved residents.

Some cities may go the way of Slovyansk, where the local hospital depends on its own generator for electricity, there are long queues for water, and mortar fire from nearby Ukrainian positions causes a steady stream of civilian deaths and injuries.

Hop Farm's selling point may be its au naturel feel, but perhaps this year the organisers were too laidback – coach companies were given the wrong start time so hundreds of people missed the first four acts, while there were hour-long queues for water on one of the hottest days of the year.

There were queues for water fountains and for food, but the queues to pass through security moved quickly.