374 examples of cue in sentences

The Turks had made their headquarters at the Hospice of Notre Dame in Jerusalem, and, taking their cue from the Hun, carried away all the furniture belonging to that French religious institution.

Now I felt it was my cue to speak.

I felt my cue, and strong pity working at the root, I went to work and beslabber'd "Alfred" with most unqualified praise, or only qualifying my praise by the occasional polite interposition of an exception taken against trivial faults, slips, and human imperfections, which, by removing the appearance of insincerity, did but in truth heighten the relish.

A little, wiry fellow, with cheerful Cockney speech, he stood chalking his cue at a window.

I had little inclination to have done sofor my cue was to admire in silence.

The cue of the spectators was to be mute.

He considers my suggestion to boycott the visit of the Prince of Wales to be disloyal and some newspapers taking the cue from him have called persons who have made the suggestion 'unmannerly'.

"Yeah, he had them sent up from Las Vegas," Bert added, picking up the cue and lying glibly.

He has quite a clerical look, and, if he hadn't, his voice would give the cue to his profession.

Littleson, taking his cue, did his best also to feign indifference.

Speak: in what cue, sir, do you find your heart, Now thou hast slept a little on thy love? ANS.

[Footnote 7: 'my word,'the word he has to keep in mind; his cue.]

"Present not yourselfe on the stage (especially at a new play) untill the quaking prologue hath (by rubbing) got cullor into his cheekes, and is ready to giue the trumpets their cue that hee's vpon point to enter.

Henceforth I shall take my cue from JOHN CHINAMAN, and encase my understanding in wood.

And, secondly, by recognizing that the mind is not an apparatus which functions in a vacuum, but is a constituent of an individual organism, we see that thinking always depends upon a purpose; for it is the purpose of an inquiry which gives reflection its cue, and determines its scope and (most essential of all) its meaning.

Elsley soon caught the cue, and talked with wild energy and pathos, opium-fed, of the coming struggle between despotism and liberty, the arising of Poland and Hungary, and all the grand dreams which then haunted minds like his.

And I knew that in a moment my cue would be given, and I would hear the music of that song beginning.

But he only smiled, and gave me a little push as my cue came and the music began.

It was Mrs. Baxter's cue.

pee cue ar ess tee you voe double u eks wi zed.

It is put either for the plural of Q., a Question, like D. D.'s, (read Dee-Dees,) for Doctors of Divinity; or else, more erroneously, for cues, the plural of cue, a turn which the next speaker catches.

(In Cue, Feb. 12, 1938)

He tried and missed an easy shot; he chalked his cue with assiduous care.

Thus, the theists take their cue from manufacture, the pantheists from growth.

I did not know what was happening; nor was I sure that Sada was within the house; but something told me that my cue was to keep Uncle busy.

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