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How to use cab in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Cab means a compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver. Example: “You can't get a cab after midnight for love nor money.”

Examples of cab by meaning

nounA similar compartment in other vehicles.

  • Dad looked up to catch sight of the man in the crane’s cab.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “”, in Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 324

nounAny of several two- or four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet.

  • “There will soon be very few hansom cabs left,” said Mrs.1915, Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC

nounSynonym of taxi, a vehicle available for public hire for single journeys.

  • a cab ride
  • to take a cab
  • “I like the system as a cab driver,” he said.2017 October 20, Cecilia Saixue Watt, “'There's no future for taxis': New York yellow cab drivers drowning in debt”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

More sentences with cab

  • You can't get a cab after midnight for love nor money.From the entry for love or money
  • What's that dealy behind the cab with a chain hooked to it?From the entry dealy
  • Black cabs may be more expensive than ubers, but their drivers are required to pass the Knowledge.From the entry black cab
  • Realizing he had forgotten his wallet, he stiffed the taxi driver when the cab stopped for a red light.From the entry stiff
  • I cabbed a package downtown in my father's taxi.From the entry taxi
  • Following the accident passengers were detrained through the rear cab.From the entry detrain
  • Take a cab lor, easier this way.From the entry lor
  • I only had ten cents in my pocket, so I couldn't use the payphone to call a cab.From the entry payphone
  • A stilettoed foot stepped out of the taxi cab.From the entry stilettoed
  • Black Beauty by Anna Sewell is the story of a highbred horse that leads a tough life in London pulling cabs.From the entry highbred
  • Since the train didn't have a control cab at the other end, they wyed the train to turn it around for the trip back to the city.From the entry wye
  • John said he could drive me to the airport, but then he flaked out on me, and I had to call a cab at the last minute.From the entry flake out
  • London black cab drivers are obliged to undergo a nearly 3-year-long examination known as the Knowledge to prove that they know their way around the city.From the entry know one's way around
  • Sitting in a black cab as it speeds away into the traffic, I check my bag.2023 February 8, Greg Morse, “Crossing the border... by Sleeper”, in RAIL, number 976, page 45. From the entry black cab
  • I later found out that the cab stuffer preferred petite, ninety-pound, racktacular women, which wasn't me.2020, Holly Parker, Back on the Market: A Realtor's Guide to Love and Life, Simon and Schuster, page 169. From the entry racktacular
  • I broke the mirrors of me cab and I'd like to tell you how.2019, “I love my juggernaut”, in The Pothole Song Album, performed by Richie Kavanagh. From the entry sceach
  • The gravity of our situation sucks all the air out of the truck cab.2015, Ryan Correy, A Purpose Ridden, →ISBN. From the entry suck all the air out of
  • Please have a seat” and entertain their customers with patriotic music in the cab during the ride.2013 October, Per Anders Rudling, “Memories of ‘Holodomor’ and National Socialism in Ukrainian political culture”, in Yves Bizeul, editor…. From the entry heroiam slava
  • The driver stopped the cab on the spot, brick-walled it then and there.2012, Geoff Dyer, The Colour of Memory, →ISBN. From the entry brick wall
  • I'm telling you, there's only one way you gonna get to Norlins now, and that's by cab.”2011, Jonathan Raban, Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi. From the entry Norlins
  • They took a cab and climbed the four flights to Sasha's Lower East Side walk-up.2010, Jennifer Egan, “Found Objects”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad. From the entry walk-up
  • No one much likes it when something—an empty cab, an out-of-service subway train, summer—goes by without stopping.2005 October 17, “Talk of the Town: Elevator Hack”, in The New Yorker. From the entry out-of-service
  • Presidents, to homemakers, cab drivers, CEOs, scientists, teachers, and, yes, even writers.2000, Sheldon Z. Kramer with Mardeene Mitchell, “The End Is Embedded in the Beginning”, in Hidden Faces of the Soul: Ten Secrets for…. From the entry Ms. President
  • A white line was painted on the floor next to the motorman's cab.1997 June 26, Adam H. Kerman, “CTA Cuts Conductors”, in misc.transport.urban-transit (Usenet). From the entry railfan seat
  • An habitually raised arm, termed 'calling a cab', was the trademark of amateurism.1994, Dick Francis, Wild Horses, page 137. From the entry call a cab
  • The cab height was reduced, but the front fenders looked higher and humpier.1988, John Gunnell, Chevrolet Pickups, 1946-1972: How to Identify, Select and Restore Chevrolet Collector Light Trucks, Panels and El…. From the entry humpy
  • The rear of the cab was stacked with boxes of soft drinks and ‘Eskis’.1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 75. From the entry esky
  • And he thrusts a ringful of dangling strips of leather into the cab.1979, Kate Simon, Mexico, places and pleasures, →ISBN, page 378. From the entry ringful
  • Anyways, I'm due at the garage." Nathan Shapiro is usually gentle with cab drivers.1972, Richard Lockridge, chapter 11, in Write Murder Down, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company…. From the entry hacker
  • Cab slowing and stopping in front of a tall yellow building.1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 230. From the entry odiferousness
  • It is all your life is worth to get a cab then.1962, District of Columbia Appropriations, U.S. Government Printing Office, p. 217 (Google snippet view). From the entry all one's life's worth
  • At the cab front there is a three-piece screen; the driving panels are fitted with pneumatic wipers.1960 February, “High-Voltage Electric Locomotive for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 125. From the entry three-piece
  • Folding blinds are fitted to the cab bulkhead windows and sunblinds at the driving windows.1959 January, “Single-Unit Diesel Railcars for the Western Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 58. From the entry bulkhead
  • It had taken them nearly ninety minutes to free Virgil from the cab of the Chevvie.1959, Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1995 printing), page 289. From the entry Chevvie
  • On the assistant's side of the cab, another light shows should the train heating boiler shut down.1958 June, “Main-Line Diesel-Electric Locomotives for the Eastern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 395. From the entry shut down

Meaning of cab

  1. noun A compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver.
  2. noun A similar compartment in other vehicles.
  3. noun A shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower.

Full definition of cab

Questions about cab in a sentence

How do you use cab in a sentence?
Cab is used as a noun and verb. For example: “You can't get a cab after midnight for love nor money.”
What is a short sentence with cab?
“a cab ride”
What does cab mean?
Cab means a compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cab (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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