Sentence examples for tedious queues from inspiring English sources
Many choose to stand in tedious queues by the departure gate to improve their chances of a place near the exit or alongside their travelling companions.
The venue has got an excellent programme, but it has an airport-like love of tedious queues, eagerly policed by students with searchlights and attack dogs.
We knew this would happen, we "could have told you" that it would rain (it always does on weekends, bank holidays, and special occasions), and that there would be long and tedious queues for the exhibition, the tea stall, the lunch counter, the bar, and the loos.
The skies were overcast, the visibility was OK if not perfect and the pistes - especially the wide motorway runs on the outer reaches of l'Espace Killy (as the linked might of Val d'Isère and nearby Tignes is known) - were almost eerily quiet, which meant lots of carefree, high-speed riding and no tedious queueing on the chairlifts.
Visiting them is tolerable at best and often tedious, thanks to long queues and tiresome paperwork.Umpqua, in contrast, is trying to create outlets that neighbourhoods will welcome and people will want to visit.
Early-morning airport queues, security checks, baggage delays, tedious transfers, high CO2 emissions... Who would choose to fly to a ski resort if there were a better option?
Take it out when you have spare moments, such as waiting for transport, standing in a queue, eating lunch, keeping yourself awake during a tedious meeting where concentrating isn't essential but looking alert is! Jot down ideas and thoughts that you know will be helpful in informing more substantial writing later.
There may be the occasional cry of "drats" when it turns out one won't be getting BOGOF on the cheddar cheese because they didn't put their reading glasses on to check the small print, but at least the whole tedious thing happened with complete, undivided attention for the checkout assistant - and the queue forming behind them.
I bet that some of you don't: the endless queues, fog, lukewarm coffee and BAA's cheese-grater seats can make the entire experience a tedious chore.
"So it's tedious, really tedious.
