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Example sentences for: cue

How can you use “cue” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The heroines of Career Girls crack jokes about the people turning up from their past as if on cue: What are the chances of that?
According to Professor Spevack, the word hint has no connotation of invitation or covert suggestion: it simply means cue or suggestion; but should not be construed in the modern sense of innuendo, or sly, or teasing, which it came to mean by the end of the 18th century.
Dole appears briefly in color--a visual cue that we are now watching him on the stump and not in Congress--and promises that we are about to see "the real Bob Dole."
There is a beat, as if to cue audience laughter, and then Shakespeare walks away.
The imbalance is especially notable given that other significant phenomena--such as the lingering effects of racial oppression in the (recent) past, new eruptions of anti-black prejudice, and so-called "rational" racial discrimination (by which people, without malevolent intent, use black skin as a negative cue)--are relegated to the far margins of discussion.