How To Use hackney In A Sentence
- With 38% of the population of Hackney surviving on benefits, few homes are equipped with flatscreen TVs. Top Boy gets a mixed reception from Hackney residents
- But he insists on painting a picture with the same old hackneyed images and rancid cliches about salt-of-the-earth heartlanders and morally vacant or cowardly coastal cosmopolitans.
- There was a panic in Dhurrumtolla; a "ticca-gharry" -- the shabby oblong box on wheels, dignified in municipal regulations as a hackney carriage -- was running away. Hilda A Story of Calcutta
- Taxi licensing is dealt with by local authorities and Ribble Valley Council currently has 26 operators, 66 private hire vehicles, 49 hackney cabs and 81 drivers on its books.
- It's a trite and hackneyed old platitude - but sometimes, you do just have to stop and look at what's around you.
- But the key to stock market glory isn't contained in some hackneyed phrase.
- Sketching the plot of the film calls to mind any number of archetypal/hackneyed tales of fraternal rivalry, flight from danger, coming of age, and so on.
- The mind tires with the second or third hackneyed phrase. The Times Literary Supplement
- A hackney carriage plate allows drivers to pick up passengers who flag them down in the street or from ranks in the city.
- It should have come to London but the Hackney Empire has delayed its opening until January at the earliest, by which time Hall's travelling players will have moved on.