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Example sentences for "driveway"

Lexicographically close words:
driver; drivers; drives; drivest; driveth; driveways; drivin; driving; drizzle; drizzled
  1. He went up the driveway to the house, got an axe from the woodshed and began splitting some pieces of sawed oak and hickory from a great pile in the yard.

  2. One week later, Lawyer James Estes of Benton, carrying some transcripts of legal papers under his arm, walked up the driveway to the Ellison farm and knocked at the front door.

  3. But when they had driven into the driveway of the new Parker house, and had stopped at the side door, he jumped from the car, and came around it to help her out.

  4. The morning came when the Frost's big car squeaked down the raw driveway from Clipper Lane, with little Ruth, in starched pink gingham, beaming on the back seat.

  5. A raw gateway had been cut, out by the old barn, into Clipper Lane, and a driveway filled in.

  6. She thought of the four women standing in the driveway by the side of the house, looking lost and bewildered, and the old sigh of pity arose in her heart.

  7. It relieved her feelings to make the car roar up the incline that led from the river, but when she turned into the driveway at the house on the hill, she made a motion of comic despair.

  8. Was the car already inside the building or in the driveway there?

  9. Their driveway comes up between the Walker house, into their parking lot [witness draws], and here is that back alley you showed me a picture of earlier.

  10. Did you go in that same driveway that the car went in that was to take Oswald out?

  11. When you say this side, you are pointing to the driveway leading to Turtle Creek Boulevard?

  12. The distance from the house to the street on the back is about ninety feet, yet there is no driveway in the place.

  13. Small city areas rarely need a driveway entrance, not even to the back door.

  14. It was set far back from the street, and a driveway entered the picket-fence and swept a wide semicircle to the front door and back again.

  15. Built on a wide lot, with a garage on one side to the rear, with a cement driveway divided into squares, and a wall of democratic height separating its lawn from the sidewalk, the house may for the present be better imagined than described.

  16. Outside, the mist had become a drizzle, and as they went down the walk together beside the driveway she slipped her arm into his, pressing close to his side.

  17. As they passed, Honora had a glimpse of a blue driveway under the arch of the forest.

  18. If, after walking through the entrance in the hedge that separated the Brackens from the main road, you turned to the left and followed a driveway newly laid out between young poplars, you came to a mass of cedars.

  19. It was late when we turned in between the white dates and made our way up the little driveway to the farmhouse.

  20. Shortly after Mrs. Hayden had built that palatial house (which had a high fence around its grounds and a driveway leading to a porte-cochere) and had given her initial ball, the dancing class began.

  21. In silence they turned for a last lingering look, and in silence went down the slope into the world again, and through the streets to the driveway of the Duncan house.

  22. The horse, with the reins hanging loosely over the shafts, had strayed to the side of the driveway and was contentedly eating the shrubbery that lined it.

  23. For a little while, as they went down the driveway side by side, he was meditatively silent.

  24. At length he gained the plateau across which the driveway ran, between round young maples, straight to Fairview House, and he remembered the stares from the tea-tables, and how she had come out to his rescue.

  25. Often the machine started directly from inside the barn, dashed out the driveway without stopping, and was gone.

  26. No--and yes, for there were the tall pines clustering austerely together on one side, the magnolia tree burdened with bloom, and the Japanese quinces splashing the driveway hedge with blood.

  27. At exactly nine o'clock as though by accident Miss Vivi's trim figure daintily balanced on the smartest of "Safety" bicycles appeared from the Balou driveway and the following brilliant opening occurred.

  28. Halfway up the driveway he plucked Snorky's sleeve.

  29. The semicircular driveway swept up to the front door, dividing off Box-edged parterres like those of the day of Queen Anne.

  30. Below Flatbush there used to be a driveway leading to an old Dutch house, set at regular intervals with great clumps of Lemon Lilies, and their full bloom made them glorious.

  31. It was no great distance to the driveway and the white pillars of the house.

  32. I met Deb in the driveway and we walked to the house together.

  33. The Fontenoy gates were reached at last, and he was about to bend from his saddle and lift the heavy latch, when a slim black girl in a checked gown made a sudden appearance in the driveway upon the other side.

  34. The gleam of a white pillar kept with him for a while, but the driveway bent, and that too was hidden.

  35. The driveway from the gate was sunk in green; a hundred trees kept the place secluded, sylvan, and still.

  36. We had not proceeded very far up the road when the car turned into a long winding driveway of gravel, bordered on either side by well kept lawns and trim trees.

  37. In a moment we were speeding down that driveway again and out into the midnight.

  38. Along that street in Louisville wherein stood the Blair house, with its splendid lawn, and its carriage driveway issuing through a tall, iron gate, front doors were opening and family groups gathering.

  39. We had lain outside of the walled city on the Lunetta Driveway for nearly three months.

  40. The kill was in the main driveway of a manor and his rider cleared the picket fence to be in first.

  41. Someone is stealing the automobile," and the speaker came running toward the driveway at top speed.

  42. Barney took the princess' hand and drew her up a hedge bordered driveway that led into private grounds.

  43. Before the men reached their hiding place a motor car followed and caught up with them, and as the party came opposite the driveway Barney and the princess overheard a portion of their conversation.

  44. They turned into the driveway of their own house, to see Loring Blade's pickup truck already there and the game warden waiting.

  45. The utility rooms and outbuildings were behind the main lodge and hidden by it and the wide driveway was of crushed stone.

  46. Sam was just going down the driveway in a neat little trap behind a team of spirited grays.

  47. Ten minutes later he almost groaned, as a trap, drawn by a pair of handsome buckskin horses, driven by Princeman and containing Miss Josephine, crunched upon the gravel driveway in front of the porch.

  48. Yet the first idea was a good one: the king stakes driven along the driveway and up the hillside of Quarry Farm.

  49. The automobile was making most excellent time and long before it was possible for his companions to arrive John had turned into the driveway that led to George's home.

  50. Somehow at last Fred found himself in the long, shaded lane or driveway that led from the road up to the house of his friend.

  51. In a brief time the car was running swiftly up the driveway of the yard and as soon as his companions alighted George took it to the garage.

  52. The moon already had risen and in its clear light the old apple trees and the poplars that lined the driveway appeared like aged sentinels, twisted and gnarled.

  53. There was a slight indecision, to be sure, whether they would go backward or forward, and there was some hesitation as to whether Diantha's geranium bed or the driveway would make the best thoroughfare.

  54. But these little matters having been settled to the apparent satisfaction of all concerned, the automobile rolled down the driveway and out on to the main highway.

  55. By the time the wide sweep of the driveway leading to Miss Prue's home was reached, there was no question of the result, and well in the lead of the little gray mare Jupiter Ann trotted proudly up the driveway and came to a panting stop.

  56. Through the paling of a picket fence I saw soldiers moving about in the yard, and going in we walked along a narrow cobbled driveway between dingy workshops until the officer opened a door, and we went into what had been a storeroom.

  57. As our motor rolled up, I saw two blue and white striped sentry boxes marking the entrance and through an arched driveway I had a glimpse of an inner court paved with stones, where an official automobile waited.

  58. She lay in passive misery against the cushions of the seat as the other turned suddenly up a dark driveway and into the open door of a small garage.

  59. The Doctor's car turned up the driveway beyond his residence.

  60. During the passage of the driveway I devised an explanation.

  61. It was approached by a driveway bordered with trees and shrubbery.

  62. It was not by any means the best likeness I have had, but there was a rather effective bit of background disclosing the driveway and the façade of the East Wing.

  63. Set well back from the driveway in a faded stretch of common, it was of rather a garbled architecture, with the Tudor, late Gothic, and French Renaissance so intermixed that one was puzzled to separate the periods.

  64. On each side of the driveway the greensward was beautified by alternating star and diamond-shaped plots of geraniums, roses, gladioluses, canna and nasturtions.

  65. From the gates at either end of the wall a broad, beautifully kept driveway swept around the semicircle of the lawn, passing just in front of the cottage at the center of the deep bay of the half-moon.

  66. It came through a sudden impulse of compassion one hot midsummer day when Miss Burgess hobbled up the driveway in the hope of gleaning some Bellevue society notes.

  67. He kissed Lydia good-by, tossed Ariadne high in the air, and as he hurried down the driveway he called back over his shoulder: "Take good care of my little niece for me!


  68. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "driveway" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.