DRIVE in a Sentence

Learn DRIVE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
393 example sentences for DRIVE, such as:
1. York was within an hour's drive.
2. I can't drive yet I'm still learning.
3. These drugs may affect your sex drive.
4. My blurry vision makes it hard to drive.
5. The treatment will not affect your sex drive.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DRIVE
drive
 v.  have certain properties when driven
 n.  a wide scenic road planted with trees
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "Of course Jotham'll drive you over," Ethan roused himself to answer.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  At the moment, however, his one desire was to avoid the long drive with her behind the ancient sorrel who never went out of a walk.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
3  To Ethan there was something vaguely ominous in this stolid rejection of free food and warmth, and he wondered what had happened on the drive to nerve Jotham to such stoicism.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
4  "I'm going to drive you over, Matt," he whispered.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
5  "I'm going to drive you over," he repeated; and she went into the kitchen without answering.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  But I generally make out to drive over there round about New Year's, and once in the summer.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
7  That was enough to drive a man to distraction, but it had its charm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
8  The dark cedars on either side of the graveled drive met in an arch overhead, turning the long avenue into a dim tunnel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  Scarlett blew her nose on her torn handkerchief, and they started up the dark drive arm in arm, the horse following slowly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
10  Gerald helped his wife into the carriage and gave orders to the coachman to drive carefully.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
11  During the months that followed the bazaar, Rhett called whenever he was in town, taking Scarlett riding in his carriage, escorting her to danceables and bazaars and waiting outside the hospital to drive her home.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  You get out and help me in and drive me somewhere where nobody will see me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  Yet, just let him drive the Yankees back twenty miles and he'll be Jesus again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
14  He'd drive the Yankees back from the creek, yes, back across the river and on up the road every step of the way back to Dalton.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
15  She wanted very much to scream every time Melanie did, and only by biting her lips so hard it infuriated her could she restrain herself and drive off hysteria.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
Example Sentence: (183 in 13 pages)
1  Consumption of alcohol impairs your ability to drive a car or operate machinery.
2  She mistrusted her ability to learn to drive.
3  The treatment will not affect your sex drive.
4  These drugs may affect your sex drive.
5  They deflated the tires slightly to allow the truck to drive under the overpass.
6  The trucks tried to drive to the British base, running the gauntlet of marauding bands of gunmen.
7  From Poiso we make a short diversion to drive to the top of the mountain.
8  My blurry vision makes it hard to drive.
9  York was within an hour's drive.
10  We keep dogs in the yard to drive off intruders.
11  I can't drive yet I'm still learning.
12  The driver promised to drive me to the railway station, yet he begged off at the last minute.
13  Drive your business, do not let it drive you.
14  We're going to launch a big recruitment drive in the autumn.
15  Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive ; easy to govern but imposible to slave.