How To Use Drove In A Sentence

We drove a mile or so to Shipley Glen, a wooded hillside where a bit of family fairground fun awaited.
Koju drove implacably on until we reached our destination Baabara, a cluster of old stone bungalows.
Going into the large yard, he cut two oaken wedges, took a new wheel, and drove a wedge firmly into one end of its axle-box. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
We drove home in silence and, when he parked in our long driveway, I stopped to pluck some ixora flowers while Nnamabia unlocked the front door. Excerpt: The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
She drove a hard bargain with the seller.

The car, a dark four-door saloon, drove off, leaving him behind.
About two hours after De Forest made his report, Green came in and reported that according to orders he had "shadowed" De Forest and Mrs. Maroney when they drove into the city. The Expressman and the Detective
He slammed the door and drove the bolt home.
He had been assigned to stand guard beside one of the caged men as they drove in a column through a baying mob. Times, Sunday Times
There were horse traders, mule teamsters, and frequent drovers of cattle. 'David Ruggles'
As my mom drove me home, after an embarrassing shower of kisses at the bus station, she chattered on and on about how boring her life was without me.
The ambulance drove to the hospital slowly as a safety measure because Mr A could not be belted and was not secure in the ambulance.
Trevelez is, perhaps, Spain's highest village, the gateway to the Upper Sierra Nevada and the winter ski-slopes, and was as high as I drove.
A series of offensives in early 1918 achieved initial success but ultimately failed to break the Allied line, and by summer, with the Americans coming in droves, the tide of the war had turned irreversibly against the Central Powers. How Wars end
Once we got home, there was barely time to enjoy our presents. We had to go off to our grandparents' house for our annual Christmas dinner. As we drove down the highway through town, I noticed that the family was still there, standing outside the closed gas station.
He got into the left turning lane and drove onto the on ramp and onto the freeway.
He drove a Rolls-Royce with a personalised number plate.
What drove him remains a mystery in a book that is more hagiography than biography. Times, Sunday Times
Across the upland above the cliff a ploughman drove leisurably forth and back, and always close behind his heels the earth was white with these birds inspecting the fresh-turned furrow. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
As she drove along the narrow, winding country lanes she and an oncoming coach, carrying teenagers to school in Harrogate, slowed so both vehicles could safely pass.
The tide, too, which had hitherto favoured us, now turned against us and drove us to the eastward with prodigious rapidity, so that we were in great anxiety for the Wager and the Anna pink, the two sternmost vessels, fearing they would be dashed to pieces against the shore of Staten Land. Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced
Some tutors attempt the _suaviter in modo_, my schoolmaster preferred the _fortiter in re_; and, as the boatswain said, by the "instigation" of a large knotted stick, he drove knowledge into our skulls as a caulker drives oakum into the seams of Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
The autumn birds were singing; the autumn flowers were blooming; yellow golden rod and scarlet sumach glowed in the corners of the fences; locusts chirped in treetops; grasshoppers stridulated in the meadows, one or two of them making more noise than a whole drove of cattle lying peacefully chewing their cud beneath an umbrageous elm and lifting up their great, tranquil, blinking eyes to the morning sun. The Redemption of David Corson
; the river raced in turbid waves; the sand drove in clouds; and the face of the sky was darkened as if by a London fog. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
Woe slipped into the wheel; the merchant caught up the oaken wedge, and drove it into the axle-box from the other side. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
I was anxious as I drove Route 40 through the shaley, steep bit of country, where the hills are close like the bellows of an accordion. CHASING the WHITE DOG
There was no time now to call at the hostel so we drove through the sprawling, congested town and out again into the country on dirt tracks. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
She drove me to school every day
So they tracked him down, and he said, Oh, no, she's a fruitcake, she's made it all up, which drove my family and friends crazy.
I didn't get much of an impression of the place because it was dark when we drove through it.
Despite being shot in the leg, she drove though a hail of bullets before a colleague took her to hospital where doctors are battling to save her limb.
Katrina, of course, drove like a madwoman again.
Jeri and I got back in the car and drove south, past shrimp stands and abandoned old sugar mills.
The black juggernaut with its fourteen wheels drove past, all lit up in the accumulating darkness.
So we got an open-top double-decker bus and drove round playing on the roof. Times, Sunday Times
He drove through the red lights in an attempt to shake off the police car that was chasing him.
I drove it on a treacherous course in the rugged terrain of Virginia. The Sun
Then we got into the van and drove back to town.
Ross drove aimlessly through the outer suburbs, sharing the wide, wet road with the occasional noctambulant alley cat, a carload of cheering carousers, and electric mini-van delivering milk.
Cal drove to work, nearly missing the turn-off into the gym.
The snow came down in handfuls and cars jackknifed to the left and right of us as we drove east on unplowed streets.
It was just my luck that at that moment a police van with nine or 10 coppers in it drove by.
The urge to survive drove them on.
But what if he drove her to some remote, isolated place and left her there?
On October 30, just as the flood waters were creeping up in Ryedale, she drove her Peugeot car through a deep puddle and stalled the engine.
It seems they made a dreadful charivari at the village boundary, threw a quantity of spell-bearing objects over the border, a buffalo's skull and other things; then branded a chamur -- what you would call a currier -- on his hinder parts and drove him and a number of pigs over into Jelbo's village. Under the Deodars
I drove the ecocentric 104bhp BlueMotion, which was thrifty and yet remarkably perky. Car review: VW Golf Cabriolet
Add to that decades of se vere drought that drove nomads south onto their neighbors 'land, as well as meddling by Libya, America and Chad — which militarized Darfur tribes as Cold War proxies — and by the mid-'80s, the region had ex ploded in civil war, which spi raled into an international con flict with escalating atrocities. Explaining Darfur
One success has been the drovers' project, which was aimed at commemorating the work and life of the cattle drovers. Country diary: Dingwall mart
The military policeman from Hillsboro, Ore., drove 60 miles from his post in Kaiserslautern to see the race in this city on the French border. USATODAY.com - Fans always see a colorful display
Well, the "tumbril," as we called it, arrived each day for nearly a week, and we drove off gaily to the appointed spot and saturated ourselves in the characteristics of the land we were shortly to attack. Bullets & Billets
A shower of rain drove down upon us, each drop stinging like a hailstone. Chapter 3
In these solitary regions, the cattle under the charge of our drovers subsisted themselves cheaply, by picking their food as they went along the drove-road, or sometimes by the tempting opportunity of a _start and owerloup_, or invasion of the neighbouring pasture, where an occasion presented itself. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827
We drove over and found a somewhat dinky little dirt park adjoining a railroad track.
I turned and ran straight into a roundhouse right that drove me into the stack of crates, toppling it.
British police say they believe Mr. Heselden died while testing an all-terrain equipped Segway and lost control and drove the machine off a cliff near his estate in Leeds. Owner of Segway Machines Dies on a Segway
Historically, the prospect of energy savings drove widespread embrace of daylight savings.
They drove away slowly to avoid arousing suspicion.
‘We just plucked our bags from the hold of the aircraft, and drove off,’ he says.
The uneasiness grew into a formless apprehension, which drew him out into the waxing sunlight and drove him to retrace his earlier route through the meadow, towards College Rise.
He heard footsteps approaching, and drove his spurs so fiercely into the roan as to force a surprised groan from the animal as it leaped forward. War
As I am aware that the jack hammers from the next block all last summer were intrusive and you know darn well the birds that roosted in the abandoned former furniture factory trees this past year nearly drove me out of my mind - before I decided to set off cohetes during the day and early evening to run them off, which worked, but drives your dogs crazy for which I am very sorry. Sound ordinance in ajijic?
Nadia, with toenails freshly scarlet, drove straight from Oakburton to Sam's to recover her kitchenware. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
I practically drove right onto the beachfront, an unspoiled, unpeopled coastline that seemed to stretch to infinity. Smithsonian Mag
He and his wife drove from Fort Wayne and arrived at the courthouse a few minutes before the forty-five second ceremony.
We drove there and back on one tank of petrol.
Gannon hurt his shoulder when Ravens defensive tackle Tony Siragusa drove him into the ground.
I did wonder if this vessel ever uprighted itself on the higher reaches of the tide, listening as I did to the first gurglings in the reed-bound mud as the sea once again started to push against the hull of an active fishing boat, (short-wheel based Landrover in attendance). Tidal Reaches 2
The chinkara scattered into the scrub as we approached but the blackbuck kept appearing and reappearing, leaping across our path as we drove through the desert.
He and two of his men drove there and he spotted the hunted man.
If you were one of the 16,300 fans who drove through the late autumn mist to sit on those unforgiving wood bleachers on Saturday afternoon, you probably didn't know that the Jayhawks were under the weather, and you probably would have watched the first half and assumed "the crud" was the name of KU's new offense. KansasCity.com: Front Page
Skip drove all night, and by morning we were in Florida, the Sunshine State.
He lured both girls into his car under the guise he was a punter and then drove them several miles away.
Only when he had drained the cup of every fleshly pleasure could he accept those deeper thirsts which drove him on.
In using this ingenious wire stretcher, he stapled his wire to post number one, carried the length past post number two, looped the chain around post number three, having the chain long enough so that he might tauten the wire and hold the crankhandle steady with his knee or left arm while he drove the holding staple in post number two. Hiram the Young Farmer
German champions along with young talented riders jumped, piaffed, went across country, drove carriages, vaulted, reined or went endurance riding to the joyful rhythm of music.
Then he drove to tell police the murdered woman was in his car boot.
He drove these wild ducks on the bow into the water with a punt - pole.
Megan drove back to her place feeling exhaustion and depression settle in.
Once we got home, there was barely time to enjoy our presents. We had to go off to our grandparents' house for our annual Christmas dinner. As we drove down the highway through town, I noticed that the family was still there, standing outside the closed gas station.
When most people think about Australian national identity, the images they remember are overwhelmingly blokey - drovers, surfies, lifesavers, Anzac soldiers.
A liveried flunkey doffed his cap and drove the Peugeot away while others dutifully hauled luggage about.
The black car drove away from them and disappeared.
In his second game back, Durazo hit three homers and drove in nine runs.
And send them, in droves, to the corporate media.
But when, on 17 December, Captain Bonaparte's gunners drove the British and Spanish troops from the key forts on those heights, Admiral Hood saw that he must evacuate the port immediately or have his fleet shot to matchwood.
As we drove north from Santenay we passed the vineyards of Chassagne and shortly arrived at the holiest of holies, the walled vineyard of Montrachet, which is located mid-slope of the hill, the sweet spot. The Grace Kelly of Wines
The words dropped from her lips in a sibilous crescendo as her blood drove her to a display of emotion. A Virginia Scout
He was in a car with his mother at the wheel when another vehicle drove into them. Times, Sunday Times
Poverty drove her to prostitution.
Everything we didthe way we walked, talked, the way we sat slouched, one leg draped across the armrest of the sofadrove him crazy. Postcards from Heaven
To an earlier generation, landscape would have meant drove roads and sunken lanes. Times, Sunday Times
During our first five minutes on the street, a carload of guys drove by, yelling ‘Hey, superman!’
Sawyers, in their light-blue carriage with the white hammercloth and blue and white ribbons -- their footmen drove the house down with the knocking. A Little Dinner at Timmin's
Andy hopped up on the table for a minute, stared at her, then slapped Mia across the chops, drove her out of the seat, and settled in her place.
The gunman and his accomplices then got back in the vehicle and drove off down Milkstone Road.
The big steel gates opened again and a three wheeled motorcycle drove in pulling a low trailer upon which were perched two plain wood coffins.
As we drove through remote and untouched mountain villages, we were the first Allied soldiers they had seen. Whicker's War
The president of Francisco Marroquin University drove me and a half dozen other American reporters to his campus in an armored vehicle preceded by a sapper squad, checking for potential land mines in its path. Murray Fromson: A Footnote to History
Last month, a Minnesota teen drove through a stop sign and crashed into a tractor trailer, killing himself and leaving his passenger, also a teen, in serious condition.
He orders us into his Landrover and we skid across the causeway, the water rising with every revolution of the wheels, splashing above the windscreen.
The daughter of the surviving sister drove some distance to be present for the visitation and funeral, thinking about how sad her mother would be, how she would miss those weekends with her sister.
Botha also scored the first try, after just three minutes, as the Boks made their intentions clear from the kick-off as they drove strongly into the Irish territory.
And, so saying, I merely went from carte to tierce, and as he recovered wildly and parried widely I returned to carte, took the opening, and drove home heart-high and through and through. Chapter 11
So I drove to Whole Foods in Ravenna and found a fresh batch right as I came into the store. In Newsstands: Seattle Metropolitan Magazine
The motorcyclist drove on the sidewalk for a short distance. Arcane Circle
He's energizing his opponents and driving away moderates in droves because he is a right wing ideologue who refuses to make even the slightest concession to achieve consensus.
The next week, I drove to the Kingdom Hall for my official disfellowshipping hearing. I'm Perfect, You're Doomed
The cortège drove past the university, where hundreds of students and staff silently lined the pavements or watched from vantage points on surrounding buildings.
He drove through the red lights in an attempt to shake off the police car that was chasing him.
Another family drove past, the children perched on top of a couple of mattresses strapped over another sorry pile of possessions.
MR: Now, back in the day, "The Weight" was used often as a counter-culture anthem, and there seemed to be an anti-war sentiment in "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"--although, when you follow those songs' storylines, they don't overtly commit to those themes. Mike Ragogna: How To Become Clairvoyant: A Conversation with Robbie Robertson
We drove to my house in silence, well silence from our mouths but not from the radio.
I asked her to imagine beginning with a bridge of solid steel, strong enough so that it wouldn't buckle and collapse as cars drove over it.
Buyers are coming here in droves. Times, Sunday Times
Wassim Shazad, a 36 year old brick shithouse of a former-Marine drove four hours from North Carolina, to take aim at racial stereotypes of Muslims in America. Raj Patel: Polite Laughter on the Mall
The surely insolence of the waiters drove him into a rage, and he flung his serviette to the floor and stalked out of the restaurant.
Andrew picked rusty bits of metal off my car, and so I drove it home a little lighter than I drove it out - which should save on petrol if nothing else, I suppose.
He drove off, leaving behind him a trail of blue smoke.
We drove out of the barracks huddled in our combat jackets, and turned north towards the Alps.
When they were done the cake the parents drove home and limos picked up the graduates to take them to a club for an after party.
He raised the pole above his head, drove the spike into a log at his feet, shinnied up the pole, and to a chorus of cheers, bowed as he stood upon the far side, triumphant.
They drove in from neighbouring villages with their produce for sale in a kind of drosky, the _carretella_ as it was called, with its single pony harnessed to the near side of the pole. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II
We drove in caravans of 3 or 4 cars mainly because we percieved the trip as dangerous. Corruption in Mexico - Bribetaking on TV
The two were apparently in bed when the prowler rousted the couple and took some cash, credit cards and then drove away with Holloway's Mercedes - Benz.
My father just drove off as if he was going down to the village shop. Times, Sunday Times
The cars fired up and drove in single file through the last checkpoint. The Tribes Triumphant
The 44-year-old man drove the wrong way on an off-ramp to State Route 60 in Glen Avon and plowed into the bus carrying seven students, Riverside County sheriff's Sgt. Joe Borja said. 5 Hurt As Driver Intentionally Plows Into School Bus
It was a stormy day in November, 2001, when Sharp and his men drove up to his beach fortress with a ton of boards, jetskis, and rescue gear.
we drove here and there in the darkness
Jose and Mike drove the transplanter under difficult, muddy conditions - a job Richard has never turned over to others before.
They drove away leaving the unfortunate Tiller writhing in agony. A SEASON IN HELL
I think that our experience of the numinous is both undeniable and entirely biological: the state of spiritual peace is the result of tickling some evolved center of our brain, a bit of neurology that conferred a survival advantage on our ancestors whose numinous hallucinations of a higher order in the universe drove them to catch more antelopes, eat better, and have more babies. Boing Boing
They drove home in silence, neither really knowing what to say to the other and Jinx not bothering to break the silence.
A temporal profile needs to be contributed by a finite verb, as in I walked into the garden, We drove towards the sea.
Once we got home, there was barely time to enjoy our presents. We had to go off to our grandparents' house for our annual Christmas dinner. As we drove down the highway through town, I noticed that the family was still there, standing outside the closed gas station.
Craving the arancini at Galleria Umberto, she drove in the other day, hoping to win the scramble for parking before the pizzeria sold out.
Drove down to the city center in the early afternoon and found a bar in which the lunchtime trade was brisk but not clamorous. THE HELLBOUND HEART
I drove them to their home and we said goodbye again. Times, Sunday Times
Both places were full of titled guests invited (or commanded, rather) by Kralta, and we drove in sleighs and skated and tobogganed and revelled by evening and pleasured by night, and it was Vienna in the Arctic, with the Prince always on hand, bland and affable as ever with his popsies around him (one of 'em a new bird, an Italian, who'd replaced the garrulous blonde, no doubt on Kralta's orders) and it was all such enormous fun that I was heartily sick of it. Watershed
The cracking of the postillions ' whips, and the velocity with which they drove up to the door, brought out every man, woman and child, to gaze at the new comers, whose appearance sufficiently bespoke their errand.
He drove 25 miles to Sioux Falls, where a family friend spotted the old beater and called the police.
Those were the days when you were still a player in every sense, when you had your platinum mullet primped by top London coiffeurs, when you drove round in a E-type Asti Spumante.
This carriage, too, drove away, and the urchins gave another sarcastical cheer. Vanity Fair
Naomi admits that it was peer pressure to be "cool" that drove her into having sex early.
George Jones once drove around Memphis for a week, high on gak, and talking to a lifesize cut-out of Elvis Presley.
Her agents drove quite a hard bargain, yeah, everyone is happy.
Sir Richard didn't drive very fast and I had time to ruminate as I drove along. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
Nebraska State Patrol troopers drove chase cars parallel to the train to stop motorists who didn't obey traffic laws at rail crossings.
We drove through a Keralan-like shanty town, down roads green with palms and bananas and signposts pointing to ‘resorts’.
We had seen newsflashes on the television before we drove up so we knew it was serious.
We lit candles and exchanged gifts for Chanukah, drove to High Holiday services at the temple, and had wine and matzah for Passover.
The tourists are still coming in their droves, to gawk at the city's crumbling, period elegance.
The drovers made a fire and put on a pot of coffee and began frying up pancakes and slabs of pork.
Hugh drove slowly up to the cookhouse, where Matt had just stepped out onto the porch. DANSVILLE
The killer then sped off on the pillion seat of a motorbike and, with his accomplice, drove to a quiet neighbourhood and burned the bike in an obviously pre-identified secluded location.
Joshua drove a Triumph sports car with a hole in its muffler: ‘Joshua's Triumph was heard throughout the land.’
One day, after having completed five surgeries, I picked up my wife and drove to a formal dinner being held in Manhattan in honor of a titled dignitary. Manifesting Michelangelo
It was the first time she had ever kissed me and, as I drove through the changing light, her kiss burned like a brand on my cheek.
When the police came they loaded a silver hatchback car from outside the flat on to a lorry and drove it away. The Sun
Upon this latter a 2.6 m. wooden pulley directly drove, through a belt, the 0.2 m. pulley of the generatrix. Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
I drove the first 200 miles and then Steve took the wheel.
A pro-growth atmosphere, relatively low cost of living and sunny climate draw businesses in droves.
Hunting the eland is a common pastime; and no craft is required to insure success, since these creatures are almost as tame as domestic cattle; so tame that the horseman usually rides into the middle of the drove, and, singling out the fattest bull, shoots him down without any difficulty. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
He drove a short distance along the quayside away from the vessel and towards the town and then drove a few metres off the road and parked amongst some trees.
The police drove them back, and a mounted policeman took his horse through the crowd to try to rescue Hill, who had been unable to climb the railings.
She drove, gripping the wheel in a trance, hardly aware of her surroundings.
The police car drove past at a terrific speed.
We drove slowly past the gutted buildings.
We drove up the Arlberg Pass in Austria - the Hymer handled the dizzying hairpin turns like a dream - one Sunday and couldn't even get a parking spot in Lech, chockers with skiiers from Germany.
He jogged back to his car and drove away, ignoring his wheezing need for his asthma inhaler.
Just to tease the boss, the drovers made a big to-do about who would sit next to Laurie but, in the end, Gil ended up at her side.
Awoke to a beautiful clear blue sky again (starting to lose the "moz") and after a sumptuous breakfast of bacon and eggs (Father's Day ritual) and the normal morning routines it was into the car and we drove the 4km further along the dirt road and arrived at the ranger station at TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
We reckon our top tips could lure viewers back in their droves in no time. The Sun
Later, with close family members, she drove to Windsor for the committal service and interment at St George's Chapel, within the Castle precincts.
The subaltern with the eyeglass is a bad route-marcher, and Wankin once remarked in an audible whisper that the officer had learned his company drill with a drove of haltered pack-horses, and the officer bears the name of "Pack-horse" ever since. The Amateur Army
He listened to bush mothers and stockmen, drovers and graziers, troops going into and returning from battle, committees, councils, prime ministers, popes and royalty.
We drove around and eventually found a reasonable hotel on the outskirts of the town.
Saturday the rural route postwoman beeped the horn at the end of our driveway to alert me to a delivery, didn't wait long enough for me to get out there, and then drove off with the medication I needed to inject my horse. Mental Space: The Final Frontier
The drover walked alongside the oxen, gently tapping them with his stick.
I overshot the house where he was staying, so he ran off the porch and ran down the middle of the street, arms waving; I did a U-turn and drove back at him, weaving all over the street.
I had gone to visit my parents for the weekend, and my mother drove me to the Greyhound station for my return trip.
The IRA drove the inspectors to the first dump in the Republic of Ireland.
Although I had resolved that morning to give up the poncing lark, by now it was several hours past the midday cocktail hour so I drove to north-west London and ponced a whopping £200 off a TV producer I know called Roy, a lovely bloke.
Walke with me (deare sal heart) into my Chamber, and there at a secret little window, I shall shew thee what he doth, that drove thee to such a suspition of me, and we shall heare beside, what answere he will give my maide Ancilla, whom I will send to comfort him in his coldnesse. The Decameron
I drove home in tears - not because of my small size but because of the public ridicule. The Sun
Drover: Oh. Right. You mean the breeding. Yeah.
She really drove home the message that we need to economize.
I have seen illustrations in shipbuilding, where, after making quite a sweep, discharging of men that worked on a vessel, we drove more rivets with the smaller force than we did before. Conditions in the United States
Dandelion's drummers droved the audience to near ecstasy. The Buddhist Channel
But, being a trouper, she drove out of LA with a guitar and a box of records, and did a one-woman ‘tour’, playing at locations of opportunity for a couple of weeks.
He drove a company Jaguar, had a $10,000 stereo system in his office and jetted around the region to hobnob with recording stars and entertainment executives.
He drove the idea in somehow, and hoped that his pupils would retain it.
In the end, I had to push the car uphill while my wife drove rather gingerly. Times, Sunday Times
The cab drove over his legs.
I drove at a steady 50 mph so as to save fuel.
I called a hansom outside and drove at once to Blenheim House, the temporary residence of the Archduchess and her suite. The Master Mummer
He drove me up the hill.
I drove along the same route only this time I past the larger intersection at T. C. Jester where I know Lucy hardly ever comes to a complete stop; doing what I call a shuffle as opposed to a legal complete stop. T F Stern's Rantings
They drove on for another 15 minutes or so before she finally exited the expressway.

How To Use Drove In A Sentence

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