How to Use cabbie in a Sentence

cabbie

noun
  • Some cabbie hopefuls try dozens of times over years to pass the test.
    — Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 17 May 2026
  • There had been a pistarckle with the cabbie who brought her to the rendezvous.
    — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
  • One of the men, the cabbie told police, tried to get into an occupied taxi.
    — Charles Rabin, miamiherald, 8 May 2017
  • The cabbie handed over $100, and the girls ran off, police said.
    — Stephanie Farr, Philly.com, 27 June 2017
  • The cabbie later told police the robber paid his fare with a 20 dollar bill.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2017
  • 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
  • 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 cabbie drove crazy-fast on streets with no cars but, surprisingly, pedestrians.
    — Kansas City Star, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The anonymous witness, who is also a cabbie, knows the shooter and was in an after-hours bar with the suspect.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Like the Las Vegas cabbie, the goal of these systems will be to make profit for themselves.
    — Judith Donath, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2017
  • 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 more years of experience a cabbie had, the larger their hippocampus.
    — Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Aspiring cabbie Steven Fairbrass didn't seem too concerned about that.
    — Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 17 May 2026
  • Everyone but the cabbie partied, downing bottles of Jack Daniels and beer.
    — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Regardless, neither cabbie seemed inclined to start driving for Uber or Lyft instead.
    — Chris Tye, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • That was also accompanied by lippy attitude from the cabbie when challenged.
    — Pat Lenhoff, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And Stevens’ many characters include Spade’s partner, the police chief, a criminal boss and a lead-footed cabbie.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
  • 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 exam process also tests an aspiring cabbie's ability to determine the shortest route between two random points, and articulate it on the fly.
    — Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 17 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Our guides are a cabbie and his 85-year-old customer, who helps reframe the troubled driver’s hardships through her own journey through the Japanese capital.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • His latest original series Keep the Meter Running sees him hop into a cab, ask the cabbie to take him to their favorite place, and, yes, keep the meter running in the process.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2026

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