cabby
Example Sentences
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After moving to DeKalb, Ill., west of Chicago, to be closer to his brother, he worked as a cabby and as an Uber driver.
From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2022
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
The cabby was talkative, and we quickly struck up a conversation.
From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2022
A carriage cabby sells cadavers to a medical-school doctor in 19th-century Edinburgh.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2020
Our cabby was craning out of his window with a furious, purple expression.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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