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Meanings of hail a cab in English

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Usage of hail a cab in English
1
I'm in a hurry, and it's easier just to hail a cab.
Nightwalker
2
Taxis In Sydney when you catch a cab, you hail a cab.
Radio NZ
3
Keaton looks to his right and sees Hockney trying to hail a cab.
The usual suspects
4
Tom says that he will go out and hail a cab.
In the night room: a novel
5
She waited until ten to hail a cab to the clinic.
Hush: a novel
6
We were standing on Radcliffe Street, waiting to hail a cab.
A duty to the dead
7
We should be able to hail a cab there at this time of night.
Soulless
8
She headed directly to the curb to hail a cab.
Shadow fall
9
I'll hail a cab from the end of the street.'
Millionaire's women
10
Even now he hadn't sense enough to hail a cab and go after him.
What's Bred in the Bone
11
I'll hail a cab or a street chair for you.
Son of a witch: volume two in the wicked years
12
If we could carry her to the nearest park gate, we could hail a cab.
Tell me, pretty maiden
13
She had no choice but to hail a cab.
Perdido Street Station
14
Do we hail a cab when we could walk?
The south beach diet supercharged: faster weight loss and better...
15
He tried to hail a cab in front of the college, but without any luck.
Watch them die
16
In a thousand guises Thaïs would hail a cab and turn up her face for loving.
The Beautiful and Damned
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