How to Use drive out in a Sentence

drive out

phrasal verb
  • The sedan exits the parking lot and drives out of view.
    Evan Hill, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The commercial ends with a shot of the truck driving out of the state.
    oregonlive, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Each morning, Mika and his team drive out to the nest sites and check on the chicks.
    Siena Duncan, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 July 2023
  • The Jeep Wrangler was built to drive out past where the power lines end.
    Andrew Moseman, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Waters, who was then 20, lived a few hours away and drove out.
    Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Every year they could be gathered and baked to drive out the CO2, then spread again.
    Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 July 2021
  • Residents who live inside the zone and drive out must pay the toll to return.
    Hillary Chura, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Currently, families have to drive out of the park for that.
    Jonathan Horwitz, Orange County Register, 14 June 2024
  • In the past, the authority helped run the Gaza Strip until it was driven out by Hamas in 2006.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 6 June 2024
  • Casey White and Vicky White drove out of the motel in the Cadillac and law enforcement followed in tow.
    Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • So my assistant and I drove out to a Ruby Tuesday for a few hours.
    Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2024
  • But those who could Friday packed into cars with little more than the clothes on their backs and drove out of Gaza City.
    Hind Khoudary, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2023
  • This has raised some concern that women may soon be driven out of top jobs.
    Stephanie Bodoni, Fortune Europe, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The few bad vibes were cast at people who tried to drive out of Black Rock City even though we were being told to shelter in place.
    Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Taylor drove out to Mammoth with his buddy in the springtime.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Those who did not were driven out of their villages by Israeli forces.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The pressure on the system that Trump had noticed was the sense that the religious right was on the verge of being driven out.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Or drive out to Arundel, to the Arundel Antique Village.
    Jessica Battilana Richard Pedaline, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • In 2006, Hamas won the elections there and drove out rival Fatah the following year.
    The Editors, National Review, 30 Oct. 2023
  • In March 2007 some wildlife biologists drove out to a cave near Albany, New York, to count bats.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
  • One sale was to a van full of recording students in their late teens who drove out from Phoenix to pick up a classic Neve console.
    Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
  • We were required to drive out there all summer, Monday through Friday, to work on mapping out the first half of the season.
    Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2024
  • But this was something Charley had done before, and when able to, Bia usually would drive out to Chinle to check on him.
    Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 25 May 2023
  • On average, the drive out there from Minois should take 20-25 minutes.
    Chadner Navarro, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2023
  • In one scene, the two drive out to the suburbs to drop in unannounced on their absent father, who left the family when Michael was a baby.
    Rene Rodriguez, Variety, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Russians destroyed the city in 2022, killing or driving out most of the population.
    Claire Harbage, NPR, 22 May 2024
  • But the cool breezes coming down the coast were enough of a reward for our long drive out from the San Gabriel Valley, where temps have hit scorching numbers in recent weeks.
    Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
  • In cities such as Florence, Italy, short-term rentals brought in tourists and drove out full-time residents, the Italian government said.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • After loading the bicycle into the backseat, Doug Morrow got back into his F-150 to drive out of the parking lot.
    Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 15 July 2024
  • After Nazi occupation of Hungary in the mid-1940s, Soviet forces drove out the Germans.
    Sean Gregory, TIME, 26 July 2024

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