How to Use drive out in a Sentence

drive out

phrasal verb
Definition of drive outnext
  • At one point, in the Reagan era, the US tried to intervene, sent in troops, and was driven out by truck bombs and guerrilla warfare.
    — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Or just pick a clear night and start driving out of town.
    — Erin Alberty, Axios, 5 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • The vehicle then drives out of the picture, leaving the woman alone in the street.
    — Greg Norman, Fox News, 18 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Ramsey said the fire started when Stout revved his car's engine trying to drive out.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
  • 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
  • Then came the Taliban, driving out the Soviets, and there was another wave of refugees.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 July 2024
  • On average, the drive out there from Minois should take 20-25 minutes.
    — Chadner Navarro, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Biden was driven out of the 2024 presidential race when rumors of his inability to hold up under the rigors of being the president were laid bare on the debate stage with Trump.
    — Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Sep. 2024

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