How to Use cabbie in a Sentence

cabbie

noun

• The cabbie handed over $100, and the girls ran off, police said.
  — Stephanie Farr, Philly.com, 27 June 2017
• There had been a pistarckle with the cabbie who brought her to the rendezvous.
  — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
• This cabbie, however, was a holdover from the bad old days.
  — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
• Driving a black car was a big step up from being a cabbie.
  — Jessica Pressler, Daily Intelligencer, 15 May 2018
• The cabbie — a South Asian immigrant — hands him two coins.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Mar. 2022
• Like the Las Vegas cabbie, the goal of these systems will be to make profit for themselves.
  — Judith Donath, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2017
• Don’t hesitate to ask a second cabbie what the rate is.
  — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2019
• One of the men, the cabbie told police, tried to get into an occupied taxi.
  — Charles Rabin, miamiherald, 8 May 2017
• After the attack, the cabbie started driving again and Smithson jumped out of the car at a red light.
  — Kayla Webley Adler, Marie Claire, 5 Dec. 2019
• In San Francisco, a cabbie who left his lights on was sentenced to six months in jail.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Feb. 2021
• Jamie Foxx plays a cabbie who picks up Cruise and agrees to keep the cab running during five stops for a few hundred bucks.
  — cleveland, 11 June 2022
• The cabbie later told police the robber paid his fare with a 20 dollar bill.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2017
• Lilly, the lone human on Satellite, makes her way as a cabbie by day and a bounty hunter by night.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 30 Nov. 2022
• The 25-year veteran of the music industry-turned cabbie and tour guide (and now shutterbug) stood in the middle of the street, lining four of us up.
  — Nadia Owusu, Travel + Leisure, 9 Aug. 2021
• Griping about the liver on his plate is not Jackie Gleason but Casella playing a cabbie with a big idea.
  — Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Sep. 2019
• The profiles start with a propulsive bang: Tony the cabbie, a fan favorite, and his rough-and-tumble Cockney exhortations.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2019
• Then, when one cabbie tried to climb into the back seat of the other driver’s taxi to continue the argument, the man behind the wheel hit the gas and dragged his colleague down the street, Amendola said.
  — Jeremy C. Fox, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• The hook is the 1967 Newark uprising, set into raging motion by a (real-life) beating of a Black cabbie by white Newark police.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2021
• Just as an Uber driver cannot hide his income in the same way as a cash-in-hand cabbie can, money routed through bank accounts is easier to track, trace and tax.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• As the weight of it all swallows him like quicksand, Hawke’s character plays like cabbie Travis Bickle recast as someone more civilized, a man of the cloth.
  — Tom Russo, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2018
• He was held in so little regard that after he was struck by a cab during one offseason an acerbic columnist wrote that the cabbie should be named Boston’s Man of the Year.
  — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2019
• Officers would later say the cabbie pointed in the direction of Wood’s house to indicate the suspects’ escape route.
  — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2020
• While this cabbie was running to stand still, all around him in China are the trajectories of lives in motion — some racing ahead, others falling under the wheels, as Winnie did.
  — Alec Ash, Washington Post, 11 July 2019
• Considered by many one of the best sci-fi films of the 1990s, Luc Besson’s flick stars Willis as a cabbie who must help recover four mystical stones essential for the defense of Earth against an impending attack.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 19 Mar. 2022
• In this post, for example, Bella uses her cabbie as a prop to signify a kind of authenticity.
  — Katherine Cusumano, Teen Vogue, 10 Apr. 2018
• But building the brain for an autonomous vehicle isn't child's play: Her team is tasked with creating a single AI algorithm that makes their driverless car smarter and safer than any cabbie.
  — Megan Ditrolio, Marie Claire, 16 July 2019
• The cabbie informs you that your destination — a hotel, temple, museum, teahouse — is overbooked or closed and takes you to his friend’s lodging or attraction.
  — Andrea Sachs, Twin Cities, 10 Aug. 2019
• The cliches are so pervasive that people out of town are routinely disappointed by those of us who don’t talk like a cabbie in a 1940s movie, or exercise normal courtesies.
  — Sadie Stein, Town & Country, 21 Feb. 2022
• So his human characters often behave like cruel robots, while spunky gadgets – like the automatic cabbie in Now Wait for Last Year – can be sources of wisdom and kindness.
  — Frank Rose, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2003
• That was also accompanied by lippy attitude from the cabbie when challenged.
  — Pat Lenhoff, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2017

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024