How to Use cabdriver in a Sentence

cabdriver

noun
  • Sater said, who was once a boxer — worked as a cabdriver.
    Andrew Rice, Daily Intelligencer, 3 Aug. 2017
  • Even the cabdriver who brought him home caught the family joy.
    Star Tribune, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Luis Rodríguez’s cousin, a cabdriver, was hacked to pieces.
    David Luhnow, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
  • The cabdriver confronted the man, who threatened him with a knife.
    Washington Post, 3 July 2019
  • Such a test could have been useful in the case of David Butler, an English cabdriver.
    Katie Worth, WIRED, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The cab struck people standing at a break area used by cabdrivers, according to the state police.
    Jennifer Levitz, WSJ, 3 July 2017
  • What spurred McCoy’s attack on the cabdriver and flight from the law– remains a mystery.
    David Ovalle, miamiherald, 26 July 2017
  • The last time Richard saw his brother was at a Kennedy Airport lot where cabdrivers line up for lucrative fares.
    Brian M. Rosenthal, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2019
  • But cabdrivers say the changes won’t do much for their industry, which has been devastated by Uber and Lyft over the past decade.
    Mary Wisniewski, chicagotribune.com, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Guides to help determine the right tips for waiters, cabdrivers and porters around the world can be found at Magellan’s and others.
    Reuters, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2004
  • A cabdriver drove three women from the District to Woodbridge.
    Sarah Lane, Washington Post, 17 May 2017
  • He was convicted in 1979 for the murder of two cabdrivers in Omaha.
    Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 14 Aug. 2018
  • The cabdriver who flagged down officers testified at Davis' first trial that Davis didn't look like the man who tried to rob him.
    Jessica Anderson, baltimoresun.com, 21 June 2018
  • The cabdriver who flagged down officers testified at Davis' first trial that Davis didn't look like the man who tried to rob him.
    Justin Fenton, baltimoresun.com, 9 May 2017
  • Then, as the city’s nightlife woke from its slumber, several cabdrivers told the Turguts that there was an empty storefront on Houston.
    Kaya Laterman, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Rusty Schwimmer shines as the nameless cabdriver shepherding the rich, the poor, the lovestruck, and the out-and-out crazy around Chicago a few days before Christmas 1992.
    Chicago Reader, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Phil Williams, a 67-year-old former cabdriver who lives in the Richmond, was hired as a trainer of enumerators.
    Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Six more people would be killed that day in Acapulco, including a cabdriver who was hacked to pieces.
    David Luhnow, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
  • The Sopranos’ story will be set against the backdrop of the 1967 Newark race riots, which were triggered when police beat a black cabdriver named John Smith.
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • And also, there was no incentive for cabdrivers to provide any good service.
    Fox News, 29 Aug. 2018
  • The last occurred in 1947, when a mob beat, stabbed, and shot to death Willie Earle, a twenty-four-year-old black man who had been accused of murdering a white cabdriver from Greenville.
    Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
  • The cabdriver attempted to chase the passengers down and was struck by at least one of them, which caused Gyimah to fall and hit his head on the ground and lose consciousness, police said.
    Artemis Moshtaghian and Kiely Westhoff, CNN, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Others pay people with cars — including hacks, or unlicensed cabdrivers — high rates to take them back and forth.
    Talia Richman, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Two Philadelphia girls, ages 16 and 17, have been charged as adults in the gunpoint robberies of two cabdrivers and two Ecuadoran tourists in Upper Darby last month.
    Stephanie Farr, Philly.com, 5 July 2017
  • Surveillance video and a police report indicate the robbery occurred about 11:30 a.m. on Franklin Street NE as a cabdriver was helping the man in the wheelchair out of the car.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Like the cabdriver, his time has just become too valuable to squander on its now outdated purpose.
    David Mamet, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The officers suspected Davis was armed and had robbed an unlicensed cabdriver and fired 32 rounds at him, striking him three times.
    Alex Mann, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2022
  • About two hours later, a cabdriver who also was picking up a customer was carjacked by two men, police said.
    Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The taxi center invites cabdrivers to rest their feet in a cluttered office with utilitarian furnishings and fliers taped to the walls.
    Winnie Hu, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2017
  • Her father was a cabdriver, and her mother sold women’s clothing.
    Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2018

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