How to Use taxicab in a Sentence

taxicab

noun

• Bach was left in the Malibu house with his three dogs and a London taxicab.
  — Jerry Bowles, Esquire, 22 Mar. 2017
• The cars offer more bells and whistles than an Uber or a taxicab.
  — Mike Isaac, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
• That was where the police found the man’s parked taxicab, the biggest investment of his life.
  — New York Times, 27 May 2018
• After asking for a ride through the open window of a taxicab, the woman climbed into the back seat.
  — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
• Water taxis are part taxicab, part ferry, part tour boat and all fun.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Oct. 2021
• A month later, the police found a witness who saw Ruth get into a taxicab with a young man.
  — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 1 June 2017
• The taxicab pulled to a stop in front of a white colonial residence in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
  — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2022
• In May 1932, a taxicab pinned him against a pillar, breaking one of his legs and sending him to the hospital.
  — New York Times, 2 Apr. 2021
• Wanted for the 2008 murder of his two teenage daughters in his taxicab in Irving, Texas.
  — Susan Steade, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2017
• Schaeffer and a pregnant Mack then stuffed her body into a suitcase, placed the luggage in a taxicab and fled the scene.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2022
• Give the baby a dose of big-city adventure with a rattle that looks like a vintage taxicab.
  — Good Housekeeping, 16 Nov. 2022
• The dead man at the Mobile station, Premkumar A. Walekar, was a 54-year-old taxicab driver who had been pumping gas.
  — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2022
• According to the New York Post, Saleh had not been making enough money to cover the lease on his taxicab and medallion.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 16 June 2018
• Not long ago, on a busy road from the airport in a taxicab, my daughter and the driver watched in horror as a deer leapt in front of a large truck a couple of lanes over.
  — Natalie Angier, The New York Review of Books, 9 May 2019
• Think of the millions of trucking, taxicab, and Uber jobs at risk if vehicles drive themselves.
  — Mark Zandi, Philly.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• If there’s no room at the shelter on the seacoast, for example, the 211 hotline would pay for a taxicab for someone to come to our shelter.
  — Kriston Capps, Slate Magazine, 3 July 2017
• Try to pay for a taxicab in Shanghai or Shenzhen with physical notes, and prepare for dirty looks.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Aug. 2021
• His father drove a taxicab, and his mother was a homemaker.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2019
• The district has school buses and vans but still relies on taxicabs for certain students.
  — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 10 Apr. 2024
• With a lineage stretching back more than 75 years, the E-class remains one of the brand's core products and serves a range of roles around the world, from taxicab to luxury cocoon.
  — Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 24 July 2023
• Fulford allegedly fled in a taxicab, shot its driver in the foot and drove away from police into the Horsetooth Reservoir Area the night of March 30.
  — The Reporter Herald, The Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2017
• There’s a genuine London taxicab parked in front that Kerbs uses to show his city properties.
  — Mark Samuelson, The Denver Post, 14 June 2019
• The high school sophomore, who survived being struck by a taxicab in 2016, was not feeling well and left school early on the day of her death, the Scanner reported.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2023
• Mr. Rappaport of the Brooklyn Center favors bringing in the city’s medallion taxicabs, which have been hit hard by providers like Uber.
  — Jim Dwyer, New York Times, 18 May 2017
• The airport charge for basic, on-demand taxicab service is $3.30 for each pickup.
  — Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 June 2017
• The model later awoke inside a taxicab that drove her back to the fashion designer’s apartment.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 22 May 2024
• According to Xue, the city’s next goal is to electrify its entire taxicab system by 2020.
  — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 4 May 2018
• Instead of following her on foot, Mr. Galella hailed a taxicab.
  — Washington Post, 5 May 2022
• Small groups of visitors lined up before the park's opening, and Mickey and Minnie Mouse characters drove by in a large taxicab and waved at the eager crowd.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 19 June 2020
• In a few larger works, photographs are patterned into a grid, each image showing taxicabs, figures, sidewalks, and buildings touched by striated light.
  — Tess Edmonson, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024