cabby

Example Sentences

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To prepare for his 1976 role as Travis Bickle, a haunted, lonely Vietnam veteran turned New York cabby, De Niro spent a little over a week actually driving a taxi.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2022

Mr. Simon, 61, a former cabby and parking-lot manager who immigrated from Haiti at 13 and started showing symptoms of schizophrenia in his 30s, will probably spend the rest of his life locked away.

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2022

We asked the cabby if he had ever tried a cupcake.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2022

A Brooklyn housewife and her cabby husband buy pork-belly futures with a loan shark’s money.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2020

The cabby makes a few other attempts to get a conversation going, but Alicia just nods or murmurs a little, so the guy gives up and punches up a country station on the radio.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements