How to Use cab in a Sentence

cab

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  • The taxi business in South Africa is not like a black cab taxi in the U.K.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The longer the cab driver’s tenure, the greater the effect.
    — Richard A. Friedman, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The hood of the truck also popped open and could be seen hanging from the truck's cab.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The city’s fire chief says driverless cabs are not ready for prime time.
    — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Video footage shows the pair swinging in the air as they were slowly pulled out of the cab toward the bridge.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Then his cab drove off — with, of course, a human still behind the wheel.
    — Michael Liedtke, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The wait at Portsmouth for the ferry to sail is long this time — about four hours — and Mr. Graham gets some sleep in the cab.
    — Stephen Castle Andrew Testa, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Then a taxi driver was pistol-whipped and dumped out of her cab.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2023
  • There is a cooler full of replacements up front in the cab.
    — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The visual ends with the actress pulling up in a cab, greeting a man who is not Akon with a hug.
    — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The elevator door had opened even though the cab wasn’t there.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The cab is armored to protect the driver in the event of an explosion.
    — Alice Martins, Washington Post, 28 May 2023
  • Not everyone can afford to take a cab when the train doesn’t come.
    — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The trucks used in the study were crew cab models, which have full-sized back seats and the most rear passenger room of any of the cab styles.
    — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 28 June 2023
  • Our ideal version starts with the crew cab—the larger of the two available cab sizes—and four-wheel drive.
    — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Nora walks her childhood sweetheart down the block, puts him in a cab.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • But instead of the roar of a diesel engine, the cab filled with the gentle hum of an electric motor.
    — Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2024
  • An early-morning cab ride back to the airport was more than $60.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • While in the cab, deputies found a woman dead on the floorboard of the tractor-trailer, Wivell said.
    — Omari Daniels, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
  • After all these years searching in vain, Jay is about to give up and move back to France when Lily hops in his cab.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 30 May 2023
  • Shortly after the man was rescued, the cab was engulfed in flames.
    — Anna Pearson, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2024
  • There's no frame, as is common practice, so the cab section is welded in unit with the bed.
    — Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Fans would also be installed in the cab of package cars, and newer cars and vans would get heat shields, the union said.
    — Shera Avi-Yonah, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
  • The 58-year-old victim was temporarily trapped in his cab by the logs in the first logging truck.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 20 July 2023
  • During his time as a cab driver, Palmer said, he had been shot at, attacked and robbed.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Trainers typically spend weeks alone with trainees on the road, where the two often have to sleep in the same cab.
    — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Her oldest was born in a taxi cab, in the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, on the way to the hospital!
    — Maya Polton, Parents, 14 June 2023
  • Ramirez, a social worker, lost his life in the back of a cab after he was seen leaving a bar with three men.
    — Steve Osunsami, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The couple was eventually able to switch to a taxi cab and be whisked away safely.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 17 May 2023
  • The driver remained trapped in the cab as rescuers raced to set up a rope system that would rappel firefighter Bryce Carden down to rescue the woman.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 4 Mar. 2024

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