Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "drove away"

  • I could think of nothing else to do, so I went out and brought the buggy around to the door, and after helping her in as awkwardly as I had stared at her, we drove away.

  • As my father was impatiently waiting to start, with the lines in his hands, I only had time to say that I would see her in a few weeks, and, kissing my hand to her, we drove away.

  • Driving round to the front of the house I found Agnes waiting for me, and, lifting her little trunk into the wagon, we drove away, no one appearing at the doors or windows to bid her good-bye.

  • The few children made a dismal cheer, as the carriage, splashing mud, drove away.

  • She did not hear the noise of his cab-wheels as he drove away: she was looking at the child, who was laughing in his sleep.

  • This carriage, too, drove away, and the urchins gave another sarcastical cheer.

  • When he drove away of a morning, every one ran across to every one else's house to debate the question as to whether he had gone to see a patient or only to exercise his horse.

  • It's been resting in the northeast window ever since you drove away, and Granny Long has been wheeled in there to watch for your return.

  • Ella Anne Long was sure the new doctor wasn't that kind; and anyway, Davy Munn had told Jean Cameron that the doctor often told him, when he drove away, that he was just going to give his horse some exercise.

  • I tink dat place is like a prison more tan it is like a hotle," said Katrina, as we drove away; in which she was quite right.

  • I drove away hastily, feeling as one does who has unawares stepped irreverently on a grave.

  • As I drove away thus, my lap filled with bloom and golden fruit, canopies of golden fruit over my head, I said to myself often: "Fables are prophecies.

  • And we drove away, leaving the poor, faithful, loving creature behind, to be sent by express back to Bergen on the steamer the next day.

  • After dinner Grandmother Marshall and Chrissie drove away, and Uncle Roderick and Aunt Isabella went away, too.

  • Poor little creature," said Mr. Bell, as he drove away.

  • As he drove away, he turned once to look at the great house, with its shades closely drawn, as it stood amidst its setting of shrubbery silent under the moon.

  • I escorted him to the door, and it was with a real pang I saw him wave to me from his cab as he drove away.

  • She stood on the lawn and watched him as he drove away, and he waved good-by to her over the hood of the buggy.

  • He was silent as we drove away, and I knew he was thinking of my own mother at that age.

  • The landlord calmly (I did not then perceive the irony of his calm) had the horses put to and our baggage put on, and we drove away.

  • Then he sat down for a smoke, and he was looking at them through the window when I drove away.

  • She let him go, but she smiled when he drove away; and half an hour later she showed the cap and mittens to her mother with significant candor.

  • The Selache drove away to the westwards over a white-flecked sea.

  • She let him go, but she smiled when he drove away; and half an hour later she showed the cap and mittens to her mother with significant candour.

  • That accomplished, he went below and lugged out a well-worn chart, while the Selache drove away to the westwards over a white-flecked sea.

  • And he stood with his head in at the window, scolding her, till it drove away.

  • He opened gates, he whistled his dogs to 'heel,' he drove away cattle, and then himself withdrew.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drove away" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after alluding; already quoted; bring you; come upon; drove along; drove away; drove back; drove down; drove them; drove through; elastic fluid; fair queen; good impression; horizontal direction; little bottle; offer you; photographic plate; port arms; said very; she begged; take some; three cups; told you; voluntary power; will pass over you; yards north