Examples of cabbie in a Sentence
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The clerk made a call to a local cabbie and said €70.
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Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
And so the lonely Uber driver, lacking a cabbie’s local savvy and social network, finds himself with no other recourse than an old Snapple bottle.
—Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
The main characters, steel-mill worker Steve Jackson (Poitier) and cabbie Wardell Franklin (Cosby), go on a wild, After Hours–like odyssey to find the thugs who robbed Steve of his wallet, which contained a lottery ticket worth $50,000.
—Vulture, 8 Jan. 2022
So the cabbie, prompted by Grist's ace climate writer to give his opinion on global warming, ended up going on for a full 10 minutes.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2011
Everyone but the cabbie partied, downing bottles of Jack Daniels and beer.
—Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
The Prius not only burned less fuel but was also lighter on consumables: the car's front brake pads lasted 185,000 miles, and that was with a cabbie at the wheel.
—Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 14 Dec. 2022
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
There's cabbie Jeff (Pat Healy), a textbook failure-to-launcher who lives with concerned mom Marion (Carol Burnett).
—Darren Franich, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2022
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Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
And so the lonely Uber driver, lacking a cabbie’s local savvy and social network, finds himself with no other recourse than an old Snapple bottle.
—Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
The main characters, steel-mill worker Steve Jackson (Poitier) and cabbie Wardell Franklin (Cosby), go on a wild, After Hours–like odyssey to find the thugs who robbed Steve of his wallet, which contained a lottery ticket worth $50,000.
—Vulture, 8 Jan. 2022
So the cabbie, prompted by Grist's ace climate writer to give his opinion on global warming, ended up going on for a full 10 minutes.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2011
Everyone but the cabbie partied, downing bottles of Jack Daniels and beer.
—Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
The Prius not only burned less fuel but was also lighter on consumables: the car's front brake pads lasted 185,000 miles, and that was with a cabbie at the wheel.
—Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 14 Dec. 2022
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
There's cabbie Jeff (Pat Healy), a textbook failure-to-launcher who lives with concerned mom Marion (Carol Burnett).
—Darren Franich, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1840, in the meaning defined above
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“Cabbie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cabbie. Accessed 5 Oct. 2023.
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