How to Use taxicab in a Sentence

taxicab

noun
  • There is a dead body in the back of my taxicab.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Water taxis are part taxicab, part ferry, part tour boat and all fun.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Oct. 2021
  • The cars offer more bells and whistles than an Uber or a taxicab.
    — Mike Isaac, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Once approved, WeGo will pay for up to six trips home per year via taxicab or rental car.
    — Katie Nixon, The Tennessean, 4 June 2024
  • Bach was left in the Malibu house with his three dogs and a London taxicab.
    — Jerry Bowles, Esquire, 22 Mar. 2017
  • Give the baby a dose of big-city adventure with a rattle that looks like a vintage taxicab.
    — Good Housekeeping, 16 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • The district has school buses and vans but still relies on taxicabs for certain students.
    — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Local taxicab operators are also just a phone call away.
    — Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Think of the millions of trucking, taxicab, and Uber jobs at risk if vehicles drive themselves.
    — Mark Zandi, Philly.com, 26 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • Try to pay for a taxicab in Shanghai or Shenzhen with physical notes, and prepare for dirty looks.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • His mom watches his young son during the day, and his dad is trying to start a new business after selling his taxicab company.
    — Chelsea Sheasley, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Three years later, the two crossed paths again when Aliyu picked up then-mayoral candidate Mamdani in his taxicab to attend an iftar.
    — Katherine Koretski, CNN Money, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Almost a year ago a French inventor is said to have demonstrated a mysterious ray which caused Parisian taxicabs to stop.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
  • According to Xue, the city’s next goal is to electrify its entire taxicab system by 2020.
    — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 4 May 2018
  • But it was defeated, mainly by Jesse Gaddis, who held the exclusive taxicab franchise at the airport.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The taxicab driver meetings enabled Longstreet to connect the dots between guest anxiety and solutions that nipped hiccups in the bud.
    — Chip Bell, Forbes, 15 Aug. 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
  • The tech company already offers an Uber Taxi option that connects riders to taxicabs, but riders have to choose that tab and pay based on taxi meter fares.
    — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Cylinders of fluid gas, which power everything from taxicabs to cooking appliances, vanished from many distributors.
    — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Until Uber and Lyft arrived, ride-seekers were reliant on outmoded taxicab operations.
    — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025

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