CUE in a Sentence
Learn CUE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
15 example sentences for CUE, such as:
1. I had never known him miss a cue.
2. Follow her cue, and one day you'll be a great scholar.
3. The actor missed his cue and came onto the stage late.
4. You put chalk there when you play billiards, to steady the cue.
5. The studio manager will cue you in when it's your turn to sing.
2. Follow her cue, and one day you'll be a great scholar.
3. The actor missed his cue and came onto the stage late.
4. You put chalk there when you play billiards, to steady the cue.
5. The studio manager will cue you in when it's your turn to sing.
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Meanings and Examples of CUE
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cue
v. assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned
n. sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards
Classic Sentence:
1 If it was a cue, Lily was ready to take it, though with only the vaguest sense of what was expected of her in return.
2 You put chalk there when you play billiards, to steady the cue.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
Context Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
3 At the appointed hour, with as much disinterestedness as an actor who answers to his cue, in obedience to the divine stage-manager, they enter the tomb.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
4 Now the curtain had been rung down forever, the footlights dimmed and the audience suddenly vanished, while the stunned old actor remained on his empty stage, waiting for his cues.
5 She knew she was not part of it nor was Aunt Pitty but the others were and they were tossing cues to one another like actors in an oft-rehearsed drama.
6 One night as I was passing a tavern I saw through a lighted window some gentlemen fighting with billiard cues, and saw one of them thrown out of the window.
Example Sentence:
1 Our success was the cue for other companies to press ahead with new investment.
2 With interest rates, the smaller banks will take their cue from the Federal Bank.
3 Follow her cue, and one day you'll be a great scholar.
4 I had never known him miss a cue.
5 The actor missed his cue and came onto the stage late.
6 The studio manager will cue you in when it's your turn to sing.
7 He said she would be back very soon and, right on cue, she walked in.
8 We are accustomed to taking cues from the outside world, filtering them, and writing our own novel inside our head.
9 In dystopian films, there is usually very little in the way of high-quality mass transit, epicurean-quality food is hard to come by, and everyone looks as if they got their fashion cues from Alice Cooper.