Past tense of queue
regular verb
The past tense of queue is queued. The past participle is also queued.
Forms of queue
| Base form (V1) | queue /kjuː/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | queued /kjuːd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | queued /kjuːd/ |
| Present participle | queueing |
| Third person singular | queues /kjuːz/ |
Queued in a sentence
- Though Monroe the man has become a vague anachronistic figure in knee breeches and with queued, powdered hair, his name is perpetuated in the Monroe Doctrine, evoked by him as a temporary response to an immediate crisis.1968, Francis Russell, The American Heritage History of the Making of the Nation
- The inevitably long line of customers queued for the latest 'Harry Potter'.From the entry inevitably
- People queued round the block to hear him speak and then voted for him in droves.2022 June 8, Neal Lawson, “Keir Starmer, you have a golden opportunity. Now try a bit of Corbynism”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry Corbynism
- School students as well as middle-aged salaried workers queued up to buy one of these Famicoms.1988, Shoji Shiba, Yuusuke Moryiama, Shigeki Yamasaki, Masanobu Abe, S. Nakae, M. Hasimoto, K. Tuno, Y. Fukuda, M. Taki, ““Which has the…. From the entry Famicom
Meaning of queue
- noun A line of people, vehicles or other objects, usually one to be dealt with in sequence (i.e., the one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on), and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back).
- noun A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.
- noun A data structure in which objects are added to one end, called the tail, and removed from the other, called the head (in the case of a FIFO queue). The term can also refer to a LIFO queue or stack where these ends coincide.
Questions about the past tense of queue
- What is the past tense of queue?
- The past tense of queue is queued.
- What is the past participle of queue?
- The past participle of queue is queued.
- Is queue a regular or irregular verb?
- Queue is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: queue (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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