drive in a sentence

drive meaning:

v. ) to operate a vehicle such as a car.

v. t.) To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.

v. ) To rush and press with violence;to force; to move furiously.

to cause to move through air or a substance by force.

v. ) to move forward forcefully or quickly.

n.) Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business.

n.) a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure

drive sentence:

He can drive a car.

Will you drive me home?

The carpenter drove the nail into the wood.

The golfer failed to drive the ball two hundred yards.

The boss is driving the workers too hard.

Someone telling lies drives me crazy.

Her mother drove Sally to study harder during the mid-term exams.

New fashions drive out old ones.

I asked him not to drive so fast.

The office is a half-hour drive away.

The mosquitoes drive me to distraction.

She doesn’t drive for fear of an accident.

Wind power is used to drive the machinery.

I put the car into gear and drive back to Jamie’s flat.

Another ten minutes drive will take you to the seashore.

Car salespeople will allow customers to test drive cars.

You can back up the server to a tape drive or hard disk.

You’ll drive me to distraction with your silly questions!

A lorry can drive up to 600 miles on a single tank of fuel.

The cows were twitching their tails to drive off the flies.

You shouldn’t drive fast when your car is towing a caravan.

I tried to drive into them why they shouldn’t smoke so much.

TV helps people to kill time and drive off their loneliness.

He reversed his car and prepared to drive back down the road.

I left my office key at home, and had to drive back to get it.

The hard disk drive is fast, too, with its own on-board cache.

Everyone looked incredulous when I said I used to drive a taxi.

Without a shotgun you cannot drive away the wolves and jackals.

If you drive like that, sooner or later you’ll have an accident.

The bigger engine came with a computer-controlled four-wheel drive system.

They get into the car and drive off, but soon they come to a police roadblock.

Some towns found that lynching was the only way to drive away bands of outlaws.

Consumption of alcohol impairs your ability to drive a car or operate machinery.

In England you must drive on the opposite side of the road to the rest of Europe.

We watched her drive her car away, until it was no more than a dot in the distance.

Statistics show that far more people are able to ride a bicycle than can drive a car.

A fixed disk drive is likely to be more reliable than a removable disk or tape drive.

I can attach my new digital camera to my computer and download my photos onto my hard drive.

She made the classic mistake of trying to drive away without releasing the hand brake.

My teacher drove me home.

He drove to school.

We drove through hail and snow.

The smoke drove them from the building.

He drove carelessly and had an accident.

The glasses of my car began to sweat when I drove out of Dublin.

When we drove through the gates, she wore a look of amazement.

He drove around the outside of the town to avoid the bottleneck in the centre.

The government drove the guerrillas off with infantry and air strikes.

He drove the police car at full throttle and dashed at the gangsters.



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