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Example sentences for "cabs"

Lexicographically close words:
caboose; cabras; cabriole; cabriolet; cabriolets; cacao; cacche; cace; cach; cachalot
  1. There are no flags more trying than those of Naples, and as the cabs drive all over the road you are never safe.

  2. I opened the window, and then the noise of cabs at all hours kept me awake.

  3. In London a shilling a mile is the accepted price for cabs within a certain metropolitan radius called the "circle.

  4. Afternoon dress is the correct attire for the park after midday, and cabs and hansoms are not seen on the Row during riding and driving hours.

  5. The evening was bright and cold, and many cabs were passing and repassing.

  6. Then, taking one of those little open cabs so beloved by the Florentines, we drove at once to the well-known hotel which faces the Arno, close to the Ponte Vecchio.

  7. Returning to his hotel, he changed cabs as before, went up to his room, and with one more cocktail for a nightcap, went to bed and to sleep.

  8. He had lifted up his feet and been ridden around in automobiles, cabs and carriages, and electric cars.

  9. These tortuous streets are irregular and narrow, sometimes with scarcely room for two little cabs to pass.

  10. In Italy and in Paris, as well as in other places, people expend a portion of their earnings in driving about in cabs and other vehicles plying for hire.

  11. But present observation has rather to do with cabs or carriages which ply for hire.

  12. Just fancy all our street cabs of the colour of funeral carriages!

  13. On arriving at the station, which is real stone and lime, resting on veritable ground, and very much like railway stations elsewhere, except that no omnibuses or cabs wait arrival, the exit is to the banks of the Grand Canal.

  14. They must have wheelbarrows, or baby-cabs or hand-carts," said Dorothy.

  15. There is no need to beware of baby-cabs and wheelbarrows; but automobiles are dangerous things.

  16. Understand, O ye peoples, what the cabs are like here!

  17. But taxi-cabs and buses were compelled to plunge into the water hub-high.

  18. Taxi-cabs that could go around through the Bois du Bologne and Neuilly or the Place de la République.

  19. The priests, and later four nuns, entered the cabs in pairs.

  20. It did away with the necessity of following any of the cabs which picked up passengers whose moves might be of interest to Hall.

  21. A row of motley cabs were lined up facing the pier, their drivers dozing or reading the morning papers behind their wheels as they waited for the business from the ship.

  22. Cabs and omnibuses were rattling hither and thither.

  23. The people were trooping home from the theaters; and the Strand, as Greta and the landlady crossed it, was choked with cabs and omnibuses.

  24. Ellesdee, who gradually grew more elaborate, also crouched on the tops of the cabs they would otherwise have driven in, and lay in wait at the main terminuses which would have taken them out of town.

  25. The cabs were thick at the moment and it was hard running across.

  26. Officers hurried toward the station in cabs with their boxes piled before them.

  27. There were plenty of cabs and taxis on the streets by the time I reached Paris, rather dangerously driven by strangers ignorant of the ramifications of the great city and of the complexities of motor engines.

  28. The funeral pace of the block of cabs and omnibuses engrossed his attention.

  29. I had seen my aunt Dorothy in a middle line of cabs coming from the City, and was darting in a twinkling among wheels and shafts and nodding cab-horse noses to take her hand and know the meaning of her presence in London.

  30. Sometimes the “roulottier” will rob property from cabs or carriages by climbing up behind and cutting the straps that secure the luggage on the roof.

  31. Paris cabs generally go at a snail’s pace, with consequent increase of fare.

  32. Our pleasant acquaintance of the golden locks forsook his own boxes, and bundles, and innumerable belongings to look for our baggage, and saw us safely consigned to one of the dingy cabs in waiting.

  33. All the cabs were chartered--every one of them; there was no cavilling about fares; the cabs were taken and no questions asked, but orders were given to drive as hard as possible.

  34. Once more cabs can be had at decent rates.

  35. Cabs rusted at the street corners by scores; and now he, too, was to be idle.

  36. The cabs and other carriages for the gentry had gone long before.

  37. And then all night to hear the grinding of the Atlantic upon the rocks instead of hansom cabs and footmen whistling for motor cars.

  38. Half a dozen cabs and carriages at his door in the morning became a daily recurring vision to residents and habitual passengers.

  39. Then cabs across strange ridges bound, Or sink in holes, abused With words resembling not, in sound, Those Mrs. Hemans used.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cabs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.