The word "queueing" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a present participle of the verb "queue", and is used to mean the process of waiting in line or a line of people waiting for something. For example: "People have been queueing up for hours outside the theater to get tickets to the show."
Then we were queueing up for another rollercoaster and an air ambulance flew over and news started filtering through and all the Alton Towers staff were evacuating the area".
The Chilean government still hopes to persuade its British counterpart not to extradite the general to Spain or to any of the other countries queueing up to extradite him.
After midday, when the daily qat plane flies in from Ethiopia and Djiboutians start queueing to buy their fix, serious business meetings become impossible.Chewing qat gives a similar high to adrenalin, making the consumer more talkative, alert and sociable.
But what really got people queueing up were the government's yutori loans, which offered "leisurely" repayment terms.
With 13 countries queueing up to join the EU in the coming decade, most of them small, institutional reform is becoming urgent.Task one is to find a formula for streamlining the ranks of the commission.
Retail investors have been queueing up to buy property in Dubai for three reasons.
There was a steady stream of voters, and most of them were queueing up for the Democrats—no surprise in an election as contested as this one, but unusual for a heavily Republican precinct in the shadow of a major military base.
If it happens, other European candidates may be queueing up.
Foreign oil bosses are already queueing up, chequebooks in hand.Sensitivities about OPEC are one reason why some people doubt that the Saudis will, say, double output to gobble up a 25% share within a few years.
Shortages of goods have been replaced by lack of property rights; the humiliation of queueing for meat has been replaced by the humiliation of being milked by bureaucrats.
But the only real damage to Russia from this episode will be self-inflicted: Mr Putin and his generals have reminded the Czechs and the Poles, and others queueing outside the door, why they wanted to join NATO in the first place.And a real threatOther governments have come to accept that their security is genuinely at risk from those more limited, but less predictable, threats.
