Sentence examples for taxicab from inspiring English sources

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taxicab

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A vehicle that passengers hire to take them between locations of their choice, the fare being calculated with a taximeter; a taxi or cab

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Winehouse was born to a Jewish family and was raised primarily by her mother, a pharmacist, who divorced her father, a taxicab driver, when Winehouse was nine.

For example, assume that an eyewitness to a hit-and-run accident is 80 percent sure that the taxicab involved was green.

Auction houses played an increasingly important role as sellers of contemporary art after 1973, when the auction of 50 pieces from the Pop art collection of American taxicab magnate Robert Scull some of which sold at prices 50 times greater than Scull had originally paid garnered more than $2.2 million.

McQueen grew up in London's East End; he was the youngest of six children of a father who was a taxicab driver and a mother who was a social studies teacher and genealogist.

Should a jury simply assume that the probability that the taxicab was green is 80 percent, or should it also take into account the fact that only 15 percent of all taxicabs in the city are green?

The taxicab is named after the taximeter, an instrument invented by Wilhelm Bruhn in 1891 that automatically recorded the distance traveled and/or the time consumed, thus enabling the fare to be accurately measured.

London's distinctive black taxicab is a familiar feature of the city scene.

In some cities, such as London, taxicab design must meet legally approved specifications.

The play, suggested by a taxicab drivers' strike of the previous year, used flashback techniques and "plants" in the audience to create the illusion that the strikers' meeting was occurring spontaneously.

As a teenager, Dorsey created taxi-dispatching software that was adopted by taxicab companies.

Taxicab firms may be organized in any of three ways.

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