drive off

phrasal verb

drove off; driven off; driving off; drives off

: to cause or force (someone or something) to leave

They drove off the invaders.

waved her hands to drive the flies off

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Stephanie Mollet told Van Sant that there had been a family argument that morning, and Danni drove off to the Cameron Bridge Fishing Access area to get away. —

Lauren Clark, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2025 The female driver initially stopped but then drove off after the officer commanded her to get out of the car. —

Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025 Budge eventually drove off, according to the prosecution service, before his car was located in Dunfermline, Fife. —

Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 6 Feb. 2025 And then, finally and most fatefully, driving off the morning after that event for a weekend test-drive of a new strain of acid at Richards’s country home, which would result in a famous drug raid that nearly put both Richards and Jagger into prison, and forever change her image in Britain. —

Bill Wyman, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for drive off