VERB
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force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
drive away bad thoughts
The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers
dispel doubts
Drive away potential burglars
How To Use drive away In A Sentence
- Drive away potential burglars
- An affectionate arm around the shoulders, a warm and reassuring hug, a gentle touch upon the arm, even just an understanding glance, are enough to drive away the blues and kindle hope in a heart beset with workaday cares.
- The dense thicket of rules and exceptions will drive away, or drive mad, almost anyone else.
- This ensured that the beaglers could not use the traditional Wiltshire Police tactic of letting the hunt drive away while holding sabs up.
- An eight-year-old boy threw coal cinders to drive away dogs threatening his friends.
- Education is the vehicle for our future, don't make us drive away in a junker like this.
- A new greenhouse fumigant based on garlic will drive away insect pests - and boost the plants' immune systems. The Sun
- Hot, sulfurous gases waft from vents in the earth, kill trees, drive away wildlife, and sometimes threaten people's lives.
- I watch the horrible dream drive away and disappear in a dribble of tail-lights.
- The address that Rod had been given was a 20 mile drive away and it was not until nearly three o'clock that he cruised slowly past the terraced houses where he had been told to find the car.
