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Example sentences for "taxi"

Lexicographically close words:
taxations; taxe; taxed; taxers; taxes; taxicab; taxicabs; taxidermist; taxidermists; taxidermy
  1. The girl took a boy in the taxi to give him a jaunt.

  2. I should just like to take a taxi to the corner of Tottenham Court Road and get out there and tell it to wait for me, just to put the girls in their place a bit.

  3. You shall go up and down and round the town in a taxi every day.

  4. I've as good a right to take a taxi as anyone else.

  5. And sure enough, when they got into the taxi Mr. Merrill signaled and started swiftly up the street, they weren’t a bit too warm.

  6. I ordered a taxi when I was up at the bath house.

  7. Won't you ask them to have a taxi ready for me when I arrive," said Jimmy.

  8. Then they raced down the street toward the place where their taxi driver awaited.

  9. So great was the jam of trucks and fire apparatus and other vehicles that their taxi could not approach within several blocks of the hospital.

  10. Thanking the Cleveland officials, the two New Yorkers hurried back to their taxi and were whirled off to the scene of the disaster.

  11. By the time he got back with these, a taxi was just rolling up with Handley.

  12. A taxi took him speedily to the Morning Press office in Manhattan.

  13. They hurried out to their taxi and got into it.

  14. Jimmy directed the taxi driver to take him to the nearest big newspaper.

  15. Before he had finished his inspection, a taxi rushed up and Handley stepped out.

  16. They waited only long enough to order their plane serviced promptly, then they stepped into a taxi and were whirled toward the city.

  17. How the taxi groaned as he helped her inside and started her off to Bridgeport.

  18. Then he strode distractedly everywhere, till at last he was hustled by Deborah into a taxi waiting outside.

  19. In a taxi which had stopped in a jam, a man was kissing a girl in his arms, and both of them were laughing.

  20. Allan looked out of the window, and then with a low exclamation he jumped from the taxi and slammed the door.

  21. Oh, father dear," cried Edith, from the taxi down below.

  22. It was the taxi which they were pursuing.

  23. The taxi had stopped for a few minutes in front of this door.

  24. The yellow taxi was continuing its patient and plucky little effort.

  25. When the door of the taxi was shut, a man's voice had shouted from the inside: "Drive down the Boulevard Saint-Germain and along the quays.

  26. Yes, Monsieur le Préfet, I have had the taxi brought up to the gate beside your car.

  27. Malone punched the redcap's buttons again, and he and Boyd followed it through the crowded station to the taxi stand.

  28. Next time you want taxi service," he said, "you just call us up.

  29. My taxi let me off at the entrance around the block, and I've been looking for you down there.

  30. I realized they must have made a mistake, and you'd come here, and I called for a taxi and came out here.

  31. The taxi waited in a pool of darkness between two street lights.

  32. The taxi appeared in a few minutes, and when Nancy and Linda were finally alone, the former regarded her friend with wonder and admiration.

  33. No, but I'm dying to see my family," she replied, and followed Louise to the taxi which Ted had engaged.

  34. Turning it over to the authorities, and giving her instructions about the other plane, which was to be ready the following day, Linda summoned a taxi and asked to be driven to the best hotel.

  35. His wife was sent with Madame Pinto, Amy Loring with Barbara; he himself arranged to share a taxi with Deganway to the Foreign Office.

  36. He tapped on the window until the taxi stopped.

  37. Ivy and I are going to a dance of sorts, and I’ve chartered a taxi for the night.

  38. A fortnight before Whitsuntide Lord Pentyre engaged a taxi for the day and drove round London, belatedly assembling a house-party for Croxton Hall.

  39. A taxi had been ordered to wait for them at Paddington, and they escaped with relief from the crowded train and drove to the Cromwell Road.

  40. I’m going to write a note, and you’re going to take it away in a taxi and bring back a nurse.

  41. A taxi was on the rank by Gloucester Road Station, and they got into it.

  42. The taxi came to a standstill, and he helped her out.

  43. The taxi swerved to the kerb and stopped with a jerk.

  44. But I’ll drop you in Eaton Place and take the taxi on.

  45. I put her into a taxi just by the Royal Stables, but, when I got home, Lady Maitland telephoned to say that she wasn’t in yet; did I know what had happened to her?

  46. There was no taxi to be found in the neighbourhood of Covent Garden, and after a fruitless walk down the Strand they struck across the Park.

  47. I’ll call with a taxi at half-past ten,” said Eric.

  48. The taxi was returning, and, though he could not see any one inside, the flag was down, and he recognized the driver.

  49. As he paused to light a cigarette, the noise of the taxi grew fainter and died almost away; then it seemed to become unaccountably clearer, and he looked up with surprise.

  50. For almost an hour the taxi bowled along swiftly, then finally came to a stop.

  51. At the same moment the door was slammed shut, and the taxi rolled swiftly away.

  52. Says he is unable to meet us here, but for us to come to his place in the taxi he has sent for us.

  53. I'll wait in the taxi," called Jack, and he followed the chauffeur to the street, where the taxi stood in the shadow of the hotel.

  54. When Jack regained consciousness the taxi was still rushing swiftly along, and the lad found that his hands were securely bound behind his back.

  55. When I came downstairs and went to the street to join you in the taxi," Frank explained, "there wasn't any taxi in sight.

  56. While the taxi was skirting Lord's Cricket-ground, Gyp slipped her hand into Fiorsen's.

  57. He remembered how their taxi took them to an old Square which he did not know, where the garden trees looked densely black in the starshine.

  58. Never had he so cursed the loss of his hand as during the time that followed, when Markey had to dress, help his master, pack bags, and fetch a taxi equipped for so long a journey.

  59. He's only got a garret, and probably not a taxi fare.

  60. The sound of a taxi stopping not far off had come to her ears, and she gathered her feet under her, planting them firmly.

  61. A taxi cab pulled up near the hospital steps.

  62. As Penny and the photographer walked back to the theater entrance, a taxi skidded to a stop at the curb.

  63. There's been cars through, but no taxi cabs.

  64. Not a wagon nor a taxi any longer moved in the street; no step passed; the house was silent.

  65. The mere sight of her graceful figure as she hurried along with pale face and downcast eyes inflamed him anew when his taxi sped by.

  66. The clergyman in the taxi had followed very effectively on Winifred's trail.

  67. One of the first rites which I perform upon returning to New York is to go to the Lafayette and, after dinner, brush aside the taxi men and hail a victoria.

  68. The vehicle is so low and open that all resemblance to bus or taxi is lost.

  69. Say, any time you want a taxi or--or anything, see, you send for me.

  70. One of the taxi drivers honked brazenly as his clattering vehicle passed Myron and the latter glanced up in time to receive a flatteringly friendly wave and shout from Eddie Moses.

  71. The taxi driver had closed the door behind him, and now Myron started across the study to open it.

  72. The taxi drove through the outer courtyard to the inner palace entrance and my coat and hat were taken charge of by a scarlet-coated attendant who gave me a numbered check for the same.

  73. He was a thoroughbred at that, and could get in and out of a Taxi without furring up his Top Hat, and pay a dinner check without stopping his story and then forgetting afterward what he was talking about.

  74. She could not ask him into the hotel, for they had no private sitting-room, so they said good-night to each other on the steps, with the taxi driver and the hotel porter watching them.

  75. In the taxi going home she crept close up against him, liking to feel the strong hold of his arms.

  76. Then he drew back his head quickly and smiled at her as the taxi started off.

  77. Come away, dear," she heard Mabel say; "Colonel Rutherford has got a taxi for us.

  78. At Victoria Station Strachan ferreted out Joan's luggage and hailed a taxi for her.

  79. That, and a taxi there and back, will come out of the paper.

  80. Walk down Michigan avenue, take a taxi home--what else was there to do?

  81. A street-car has crashed into a brewery wagon and at the bottom of the column a taxi has run over a golden-haired little girl at play.

  82. The taxi system is very poor down here yet.

  83. And in a moment the taxi service of Black Rock was at Peter's disposal.

  84. He took a taxi home and wondered what apology he should make for being late.

  85. And when a taxi came round the corner, she knew that the Virgin disguised as a taxi-driver was steering it, and she hailed it with a firm and yet loving gesture.

  86. The further guns recommenced, and then the group heard a new sound, rather like the sound of a worn-out taxi accelerating before changing gear.

  87. In the taxi she proved to him by delicate effronteries the genuineness of her confessed "fancy" for him.

  88. The fact that the street was midway between Curzon Street and Piccadilly, and almost within sight of the monumental new mansion of an American duchess, explained the existence of the building in front of which the taxi had stopped.

  89. His deep rich voice filled the taxi with the resigned philosophy of fatalism.

  90. He was still in her debt for the hotel bill and the taxi fare.

  91. But as soon as the commissionaire of the restaurant at Victoria approached the door of the taxi her manner changed.

  92. As he opened the front door he saw a taxi standing outside.

  93. Drive round to the Grosvenor entrance like hell," he instructed the driver when the taxi stopped in the station yard.

  94. Simultaneously a taxi swerved round the corner of Burlington Street.

  95. In the taxi Concepcion said not a word, and G.

  96. Christine never took a taxi except when on business.

  97. There will be a taxi in Piccadilly, I know.

  98. Time goes on, The play is staged, must end; my taxi comes In half an hour or so.

  99. This taxi just ahead is in the play, Is here in life as I had seen it in The crystal of prevision, reaches first The porte cochere.

  100. When the Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be," he murmured, as we put Longton into a taxi on the last night and dispatched him to Paddington.

  101. And here's Surrey House," I said, as the taxi slowed down.

  102. And you must taxi either before the wind, or into the wind as we are now, in seas like these?

  103. This is the first seagoing taxi I've ever been in!

  104. Take a taxi and drive there," she commanded, "or stop.

  105. As soon as the taxi had rolled away, they descended and passed into the street.


  106. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taxi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bicycle; bike; bus; chauffeur; clear; cycle; drive; entrain; hack; motor; motorcycle; omnibus; pedal; ride; rotate; stage; taxi; wheel