11.   Minutes later, Rachel was running out on to the road, hailing a taxi and driving off into Central.

12.   Around the terminal, where hailing a taxi used to mean jostling with traffic and homeless people trying to commandeer luggage, there were two new taxi stands.

13.   After hailing a taxi on the Upper East Side on a scorching hot and humid day, I automatically jumped into the back seat.

14.   By parking, walking and hailing a taxi in Kalandia, the trip to Ramallah from downtown Jerusalem took over an hour.

15.   From Paddington Station, passengers can connect to other trains, hail taxis or pick up one of four Underground lines.

16.   From the prison, Sanchez and Silvia Parada hailed a taxi to take them to the Supreme Court building, where a demonstration they had organized was starting.

17.   Getting out late from my facial treatment, I hurried to hail a taxi and planned to apply my makeup en route.

18.   Hailing a taxi one day, Mary bumps into Rhoda, who has just ditched her philandering French husband and decided to become a professional photographer.

19.   Hailing taxis in Washington is dicey in the best of times.

20.   Hailing a taxi in this chaotic city can be a gamble in the best of times.