How to Use drive out in a Sentence

drive out

verb
  • Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.
    — Lydia Price, PEOPLE, 19 Jan. 2026
  • On the drive out, the streets of New Orleans were barren.
    — Daniel Brook, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Wanda and Lynn drove out to see the house together.
    — Hazlitt, 4 Feb. 2026
  • This millionaire tax will drive out business.
    — Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The chaotic drive out of Marrakech gave little hint of what lay ahead.
    — Fergus Scholes, TheWeek, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The attorneys drove out of Dilley and did not stop for media.
    — Suzanne Gamboa, NBC news, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Charles was in residence barely two miles away and was seen driving out and about, yet there was no visible contact between them.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 3 Mar. 2026
  • More women joined in, screaming and advancing until Hansen was driven out.
    — Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Ultimately, nearly an hour after the fire started, a gate opened and some employees were able to drive out in their cars.
    — Madisen Keavy, CBS News, 19 June 2026
  • The Chrysler then drove out of its parking spot and turned right toward Motiwalla’s car and out of the camera’s view.
    — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 8 June 2026
  • They’ll be driven out of certain platforms; they’ll be made to feel unwelcome; they’ll be shamed in lots of ways, and humiliated.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2026
  • These were not cases of management or media influence driving out elite-level coaches.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Kiel worked a walk with one out, driving out Oklahoma's starting pitcher after 2⅓ innings.
    — Tony Catalina, Austin American Statesman, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Hill specifically recommends driving out to one of the nearby islands.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2026
  • The suspect then took another vehicle at gunpoint and drove out of Hollister.
    — Jose Fabian, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • What to read next For better availability and cheaper pricing, go about an hour's drive out, to a place like Orlando.
    — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 30 Mar. 2026
  • His parents met in Seattle, where Michael had driven out with a roommate and teammate who was going to try out for the Seahawks.
    — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
  • As officers arrived, the suspects drove out of the garage and crashed into a patrol vehicle, causing minor damage to its front bumper, police said.
    — Jason Green, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The drive out of Reykjavik is fairly straightforward, lasting roughly 45 minutes.
    — Abby Price, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2026
  • Akins spends her Tuesdays and Thursdays collecting produce from her neighborhood’s yards before driving out to a food bank at the end of the week.
    — Daily News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Early in their friendship, the two of them would spend their weekends driving out around the bay, picking furniture out of the garbage, admiring old windows and doors, and coveting the sheds.
    — Hazlitt, 4 Feb. 2026
  • In a recent supply-chain attack that hit Checkmarx, the security firm failed to fully drive out the party responsible.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 1 June 2026
  • Kurdish units were driven out of several neighborhoods inside Aleppo earlier this month.
    — Eyad Kourdi, CNN Money, 17 Jan. 2026
  • As the man drove out of the lot, the officer attempted a traffic stop, but the driver fled north on Mayfair Road to the 3100 block.
    — Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 4 Feb. 2026
  • When you’re all skied out, drive out to Valle Crucis for a restorative afternoon at River Birch Nordic Sauna.
    — Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 27 Feb. 2026
  • After 16 years of one-party rule, the cost of living has been driven out of reach for working families, and quality of life has declined in too many communities.
    — Steve Hilton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2026
  • Penske figured a circuit around JerryWorld and the Globe might attract fans who aren’t inclined to drive out to TMS.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas Morning News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Lawmakers promised the state’s voters that the move to legalize marijuana would drive out the black market and create a safer environment through regulation.
    — ProPublica, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The surveillance camera footage shows the van, a Waymo Zeekr, veering off the road and into the vegetation off the left shoulder before striking a street sign and driving out of frame.
    — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Keeping a Kimi Antonelli in a Silver Arrow who has been driving out of his mind this season behind for an entire race will be a big challenge.
    — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026

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