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Example sentences for "long drive"

  • It was a long, long drive before we reached the great solid rock, which is hewn away within into all the circular steps of a vast amphitheatre overhung by mighty ilexes.

  • We also went a long drive to Stainborough (Wentworth Castle), through a country which may be pretty in summer clearness, but which is hideously black in winter.

  • On Friday we went a long drive, passing St. Buryan's, one of the three parishes of the Deanery of St. Levan.

  • However, she took his advice--not as to trying to view the matter from all sides, for she was convinced that there was only the one side, but as to calming herself by a long drive alone in the woods and along quiet roads.

  • It was a long drive--longer than Ella had realised.

  • You are not used to a long drive in winter such as we shall have to-night.

  • It's a long drive and of course an early dance.

  • That night, after supper was over, we told all the people of the train to be ready for starting on the road by sunrise in the morning, as we had a long drive before us and it was all gradually uphill at that.

  • The next morning we were up very early and got an early start on the road, for we had a long drive before us that day, as it was all of twenty miles before we could reach water again.

  • We have quite a long drive before us tomorrow, but as good luck is on our side it is all downhill.

  • I have been a long drive to Boarstall Tower, which is like an old Border castle, with a moat and bridge.

  • Long after the railway was made which passed by Whitmore (within a long drive of Stoke), we continued to go in our own carriage, posting, to Shropshire.

  • Then we went off in a fly, with one of the maids and another Evangelist called Mr. Grub, a long drive through a series of country lanes to solitary farmhouses amongst the hills.

  • He was going to his daughter's to tea, and it was quite a long drive to her house, so he had not dared to put off his errand, he explained, lest he should be detained in the evening.

  • I have a long drive to take before night.

  • She knew that he must be thinking of her that morning; he was not in church himself, he had planned a long drive to the next town but one, to see a dying man, who seemed to be helped only by this beloved physician's presence.

  • It had been sunshiny, pleasant weather, and he had taken Nan for a long drive in the Saturday half-holiday.

  • It seemed quite a long drive, and lunch was laid out on a trestle table in a farmhouse garden, and was a splendid repast, with hot entrĂ©es, and Lady Theodosia had some of them all.

  • We went in to Tournelle to have something to drink, while the horses were being rubbed down, as we had had such a long drive; and it was at the first mirror Victorine discovered her red striped nose.

  • We got to Marly at last after a long drive.

  • You had such a long drive, you see," said Gwen.

  • Everybody came in soon in out-of-door dress, and we started in carriages for a long drive.

  • I took my sister for a long drive yesterday.

  • The result for me was a severe headache, which passed off to some extent during a long drive which I took with M.

  • Here is Pippo, who wants to take us for a long drive.

  • The Colonel promised him a long drive on the coach.

  • It's a long drive to Wenderholme--twenty miles, you know; and I always make a point of giving the horses a rest at Rigton.

  • This sadoe has a canopy top; it is like the jinrikisha, convenient for a shopping excursion, but I pity any one who attempts to take a long drive in it!

  • Illustration: Port Arthur before the siege] We then had a long drive to Monument Hill, which is situated between the old and the new town near the railway station.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long drive" 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:
    little while; long after; long ago; long been; long chain; long chalk; long cruise; long day; long detour; long handle; long hill; long last; long life; long narrow; long table; long term; long thin; long train; longer alone; longer doubted; longer the; longtemps que; sometimes the; that such; tiny cupboard; winged woodpecker