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
  • Ancona drove out in their truck and Mathews took the wheel of the RV.
    — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Or just pick a clear night and start driving out of town.
    — Erin Alberty, Axios, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Cars were driving out of the open bow toward the little town at the end of the pier.
    — Karl Ove Knausgaard, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • He's got one of the crazier drives out of any of the Pixar characters.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 20 June 2025
  • Waters, who was then 20, lived a few hours away and drove out.
    — Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Video shows the pair driving out through a blaze in panic.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Behind him, Lee sliced his drive out to the right and into the water.
    — Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Democrats have looked to harness anger over Musk as a way to drive out their voters.
    — Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 30 Mar. 2025
  • In this conquest, to drive out the enemy, So that our colours shine again.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 9 June 2025
  • Predators such as bears and wolves were driven out, as were deer.
    — Sean Lawrence, The Conversation, 18 June 2025
  • But there are a number of areas in which people may need to drive out.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025
  • Residents who live inside the zone and drive out must pay the toll to return.
    — Hillary Chura, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Once again the Zaida was alone in the Atlantic, driven out to sea by storm after storm.
    — David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • The episode starts great with the unlikely duo of Paige and Lindsay driving out to the beach together.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2025
  • 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

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