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Example sentences for "taxicabs"

Lexicographically close words:
taxed; taxers; taxes; taxi; taxicab; taxidermist; taxidermists; taxidermy; taxied; taximeter
  1. Into less handsome avenues and streets the taxicabs now turned.

  2. One thing the young ensign quickly discovered, and that was that on the smooth pavements of Paris, and in the well-ordered traffic, taxicabs travel at a high rate of speed.

  3. There are taxicabs at the door and the cars run every six minutes.

  4. From her first acquaintance with him she had shrunk involuntarily from the touch of his hand, the slightest contact; when he sat beside her in taxicabs and at the theatre she invariably had been unpleasantly conscious of his nearness.

  5. He had paid for and shared taxicabs with Marie Deland times without number, but it had never given him quite the same pleasurable little thrill as he experienced at this moment.

  6. Certainly the world had utterly changed, and was more like a fairy city than a place where it rained a great deal and where buses and taxicabs splashed pedestrians with mud.

  7. He had to have taxicabs when they went to theaters.

  8. I've arranged for two taxicabs to be there.

  9. The door was closed again; the two taxicabs drove away.

  10. The two taxicabs should be waiting at the end of the alley.

  11. The two taxicabs were waiting, and the transfer to them took but a few minutes.

  12. They get used to looking out for themselves, learn how to make their way about, and they often go in taxicabs alone.

  13. Indeed there were many other taxicabs, and other automobiles on the streets of New York, but Bunny and Sue looked most often at the taxicabs like their own.

  14. They poured down from out of the Regina headquarters and, taking their places in the middle of the Rue de Rivoli, halted and commandeered taxicabs as they hove in sight.

  15. As they alighted from the train, and were about to seek some taxicabs to take them to lodgings that had been assigned them, they all became aware of the fact that something unusual was going on.

  16. There'd be fierce fighting if the Germans tried that, and we'd rush reinforcements out in taxicabs as the Paris soldiers went out once before.

  17. Even the fences of the parks, the windows and sides of the omnibuses and the wind-shields of the taxicabs reminded men every hour of the day and night that "Your King and Country Need You.

  18. Cab fare and taxicabs are cheap, which are undoubtedly some of the primal causes of the subway's not excessive patronage.

  19. Montevideo vies with Rio de Janeiro as being one of the cleanest cities in the Western Hemisphere; like Rio de Janeiro, its taxicabs and public automobiles for hire are the best in the Western Hemisphere.

  20. As there were no taxicabs around, Packer and I were obliged to walk about three-quarters of a mile to the Plaza Matriz to get one to return for Lane, whom we found in the same identical spot with his back still against the wall.

  21. From midnight to daylight the taxicabs by the countless swarm will be charging about in every direction--charging, moreover, at the rate of eight pence a mile.

  22. For their cleanliness and smartness of aspect, and their reasonableness of meter-fare, taxicabs all over Europe are a constant joy to the traveling American.

  23. For on the days when our insanities grow somewhat persistent there is a solace in the spectacle of taxicabs that none of the advertisements of Mr. Hertz or his; contemporaries can take away.

  24. Here in the taxicabs one may still observe men and women.

  25. It is that the goodly company riding about in these taxicabs upon which we have been speculating are none other than these codfish of the pavements.

  26. The newspaper reporter stood abstractedly on the corner counting the automobiles that purred by to see if more taxicabs than privately owned cars passed a given point in Michigan Avenue.

  27. Due to the demand for taxicabs for that evening, they had been able to secure only one, whereas they needed two.

  28. While traversing the few yards that lay between the station and the point behind it where several taxicabs waited, both she and Adrienne chattered lively commonplaces.

  29. He had established himself on a street near Times Square, just off Broadway, and there we found several automobiles and taxicabs standing at the curb, a mute testimony to the wealth of at least some of his clientele.

  30. There are two taxicabs waiting at the stand," suggested Kennedy.

  31. The relatives of the rich had taxicabs waiting outside the docks.

  32. The Pennsylvania also had eight taxicabs at the pier for conveyance of the rescued to the Pennsylvania Station, in Thirty-third Street.

  33. Her experience of taxicabs had been like that.

  34. He had very little money beyond his pay, and the constant hiring of taxicabs worried him.

  35. Several taxicabs were requisitioned, and they were all whisked away to their respective homes, after the radio boys had agreed to meet at Bob's house that evening.

  36. Taxicabs must have been made especially for me, I like to ride in them so.

  37. I've no doubt it is," remarked Mrs. Donovan, who knew taxicabs only by sight.

  38. If he could place his taxicabs where they would attract her, even casually, the main difficulty would be out of the way.

  39. Half a dozen violins will represent quite a sum of money; and taxicabs are unreliable animals.

  40. Casually she noted two taxicabs standing near the Subway entrance.

  41. The taxicabs were bumping over cobbles, through empty streets.

  42. It is the taxicabs that now turn my heart to water.

  43. Outside there was a row of taxicabs and cabmen.

  44. He turned into Oxford Street and as taxicabs were now a forbidden luxury he hailed a passing omnibus and jumped into it, and thus was rapidly conveyed into the very heart of the fog which had found its haven around Piccadilly Circus.

  45. He had driven over from the Langham in a hansom--holding taxicabs in even more whole-hearted abhorrence than before.

  46. A dozen of them went in taxicabs out to Bright Blossom Inn, where the blossoms were made of dusty paper festooned along a room low and stinking, like a cow-stable no longer wisely used.

  47. As the delegates arrived, not in taxicabs but in the family automobile driven by the oldest son or by Cousin Fred, they formed impromptu processions through the station waiting-room.

  48. Taxicabs in droves seemed to have collected, like buzzards over a dead body.

  49. A long line of touring and town cars as well as taxicabs bore eloquent testimony not only to the popularity of this tea room and cabaret, but to the growth of afternoon dancing.

  50. In that same year Ford taxicabs were placed in London for the first time.

  51. How does the number of taxicabs compare with the number of horse-cabs when the latter were in their prime?


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