CUE in a Sentence

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For CUE, below is one of 15 sentences:
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.

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 Meanings and Examples of CUE
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cue
 n.  end of a thing; queue; last words of a play actor's speech; hint or intimation; humor
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
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
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...
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
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.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
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.