Example sentences for: hackney

How can you use “hackney” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A Mountain bike or a Hackney cab could be used to go to Cumberland for a sausage, passing through Barnsley for a chop with, of course, Yorkshire pudding .

  • Hackney now has many Cypriots and even more West Indians; and Stepney houses an enormous number of Pakistanis and other Asians.

  • Thus, the results are more likely to be those of Sheldon Hackney's ill-conceived multicultural conversations, which disintegrated, predictably, into the type of entrenched, obscurantist--indeed segregationist--identity-politics posing that is so familiar to those of us who have spent time on the campuses of elite universities.

  • First, perhaps, we ought to establish what is the East End: roughly, it covers Hackney, Stepney (now known as Tower Hamlets), the Isle of Dogs, and parts of Bow and Poplar.

  • The cab of taxicab is from cabriolet , a light passenger cart; and hack is hackney coach , a coach for hire, hackney or hack being a hired horse and by extension anything shoddy and overused, whence hack-word and hackneyed phrases.


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