How to Use drive-up in a Sentence

drive-up

adjective
  • Online and drive-up window ordering will be available.
    — Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Pickup orders — with drive-up and in-store options — don't require a set delivery window and can be ready in two hours or less.
    — Emery Glover, Des Moines Register, 29 Jan. 2026
  • It's also known for its drive-up window, dubbed the Drive-Thru Tunnel of Vows.
    — Shannon McMahon, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Outside the hall, Kip Francis, the fourth child in the Francis clan, barbecued on the large drive-up grill this year.
    — Elliot Mann, Twin Cities, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The old bank building had drive-up banking in the back facing Halsted Street, over the site of which the new building was also built.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Target has said order pickup or drive-up saves the retailer 90% over brown-box delivery from fulfillment centers.
    — Courtney Reagan, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2025
  • The new system brings those functions into one app, allowing employees to pause drive-up orders during a storm or quickly look up merchandise details.
    — Star Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026
  • The latter offering was part of what inspired the pantry’s partnership with the district for the drive-up service, Katie Arko, the pantry’s executive director, said.
    — Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Enhanced services taking advantage of Kohl’s stores being strategically situated closer to people’s homes than big malls, often in drive-up strip centers.
    — David Moin, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The nonprofit provides food to nearly 350 partnering agencies, such as soup kitchens, food pantries, shelters and schools, and also offers drive-up grocery distributions.
    — Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Aurora Area Interfaith began offering a drive-up service last year, and started to promote it to the community as an option as these concerns mounted.
    — Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
  • For Aurora Area Interfaith, that increase has been noticeable for its delivery and drive-up services, the pantry has said previously.
    — Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Their home ceremony included drive-up COVID testing and just 24 people from their inner circle.
    — Angel Saunders, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The couple also reflected on their pandemic wedding, which took place at the same home and included drive-up COVID testing and just 24 guests.
    — Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026
  • For teams of five or more, team packets can be picked up in bulk at the Statesman’s new drive-up location, located at 8000 Metropolis Drive, Bldg.
    — Julianna Duennes Russ, Austin American Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The new store features a full-service pharmacy, drive-up and go grocery pick-up, expanded Starbucks and seating areas and a designer floral department, according to the company’s new release.
    — Maritza Dominguez, AZCentral.com, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Open Cupboard’s services, including another fresh market in Maplewood and a drive-up grocery option in Oakdale, have been helpful to more people than ever since the government shutdown.
    — Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 29 Oct. 2025
  • While the change is geared at reaching more West Aurora families, anyone in the community can use the Saturday drive-up service, not just those in the school district, both Smith and Arko emphasized.
    — Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
  • LoBue’s siblings, who were children when Chatman stabbed the 18-year-old LoBue 51 times at a San Jose drive-up photo kiosk, see Chatman’s release as a virtual certainty.
    — Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Saturday mornings are likely to look a lot different at the Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry starting this weekend, as the pantry is moving its drive-up service to the weekend in the hopes of serving more people in the community.
    — Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
  • These projects include roofs, HVAC systems, elevators, general maintenance, playgrounds, parking lots and drive-up areas at Riverside and Valley View, among others.
    — Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The American tech giant’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, wrote in a X post in July, that the bot will begin delivering food orders to customers at Tesla’s futuristic drive-up diner in Los Angeles next year.
    — Yue Wang, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Target also outsourced its pharmacy business to CVS, expanded its partnership with Starbucks to include drive-up and added shop-in-shops with brands such as Warby Parker, Ulta Beauty and Disney.
    — Star Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026
  • Part of the reason for Aurora Area Interfaith switching its drive-thru offering from Friday to Saturday, the update from the pantry said, is to reach more families from West Aurora School District 129, which is partnering with the pantry on the new drive-up service.
    — Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The drive-up exchange is sponsored by OC Supervisors Doug Chaffee, Vicente Sarmiento and Janet Nguyen in partnership with the city of Garden Grove and the Garden Grove Police Department.
    — Claire Wang, Oc Register, 7 Nov. 2025

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