How to Use drive-in in a Sentence

drive-in

noun

• The teen idols squired Evert and Navratilova to a drive-in movie.
  — Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023
• There’s a sick, pink, B-movie drive-in glow to much of the picture.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 May 2024
• The two share the grief of that loss — and a motorhome on the lot of a drive-in movie theater.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2023
• In mid-June, the drive-in will be open seven days per week.
  — Melanie Savage, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2024
• But the coolest amenity is the drive-in movie theater that plays flicks in the middle of the desert.
  — Brittany Anas, House Beautiful, 2 Sep. 2023
• While prices at the drive-in have risen over the years, most menu items still sit under $10.
  — Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 22 July 2023
• This was back when Frisch's was a drive-in with carhop curb service.
  — Annasofia Scheve, The Enquirer, 26 June 2023
• Find the complete list of drive-in theaters and what to know below.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 15 Apr. 2024
• The priest invited the boy to drive-in movies and to spend the night in the rectory, where the priest offered him beer.
  — Ruth Graham, New York Times, 23 May 2023
• This film plays every night at the drive-in theater before the main show.
  — Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2024
• That whole sequence at the end, the entire drive-in movie theater, that took us three weeks.
  — Marc Malkin, Variety, 8 Oct. 2024
• The 275 parking spaces help make up what is one of the last drive-in theaters left in Michigan.
  — Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2024
• In keeping with the Art Deco theme, the venue is meant to pay tribute to the world’s first drive-in movie theater which opened in 1933.
  — Camryn Harris, Town & Country, 21 June 2023
• But Fayetteville is going to have a drive-in theater again.
  — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 16 Feb. 2023
• In the late ’70s, Hooper’s movie had made its way from first-run theaters to the threadbare drive-ins of New England.
  — Chris Nashawaty, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024
• The grocery and liquor store was a standalone building and the parking lot was as lively as any 1960s drive-in.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2023
• For a quick fuel-up, there’s a drive-in location in Portsmouth, at 365 Park Avenue.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2023
• Performance so far is strongest in the west of Germany, and the title is seeing strong drive-in play.
  — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2024
• The drive-in fast-food chain is offering corn dogs for only 99 cents - plus tax, of course - all day on Wednesday, March 15.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 15 Mar. 2023
• At one point, Kandice looked over and saw a drive-in movie theater lit up, with people streaming into the lot and a man in the box office.
  — Marisa Kwiatkowski, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
• The two stood together in the clearing, just a few feet from Northern’s campsite, which decades ago was the site of a drive-in movie theater.
  — Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Feb. 2024
• In order to get the freebies, teachers must make another purchase and use the drive-in chain’s app.
  — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
• The question is, will movie theaters become obsolete like in the 1970s golden age of drive-in movies?
  — Letters To The Editor, Orange County Register, 17 June 2024
• Nugget ice, also called pebble ice or Sonic ice (named for the drive-in, fast food chain), is perhaps the trendiest ice.
  — Jonathan Bender, Popular Mechanics, 26 July 2023
• Since the early-1930s, drive-in cinemas have allowed people to enjoy a film in a more unique, novel way.
  — Brittany Natale, Redbook, 6 Apr. 2023
• More:Michigan's 11 drive-in theaters There is over 10 acres of land, including a pole barn and office space.
  — Jordan Green, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2024
• Anderson and the saucer car were at The Suds for a few hours, said Susan Wagner, who took over operation of the drive-in in 2023.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 9 Apr. 2024
• The experience is a little like attending a drive-in movie in space.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
• Set at the Cheshire Fairgrounds on the edge of the small town of Swanzey, Northlands emerged from the drive-in concerts that became popular during the pandemic.
  — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2024
• The burgers will remind you of old-school drive-in style burgers, which is perfect for Pool Burger’s location.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Jan 2025