drive out

phrasal verb

drove out; driven out; driving out; drives out

: to cause or force (someone or something) to leave

They drove the invaders out.

The family was driven out of the neighborhood by rising real estate prices.

Examples of drive out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In the past, the authority helped run the Gaza Strip until it was driven out by Hamas in 2006. —

Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 6 June 2024 One sale was to a van full of recording students in their late teens who drove out from Phoenix to pick up a classic Neve console. —

Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024 My vacation vibe is putting on Taylor Swift's Folklore and driving out east to a seaside town that lives up to Ina Garten's quaint lifestyle. —

Alex Apatoff, Peoplemag, 31 May 2024 The editorial board’s longstanding anti-Second Amendment stance has apparently driven out any common sense that may have resided in staff offices. —

Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 9 Mar. 2024 Russians destroyed the city in 2022, killing or driving out most of the population. —

Claire Harbage, NPR, 22 May 2024 Many small and mid-sized dairy farms have been driven out of business and farmers’ net returns fall below zero year after year. —

Seyward Darby, Longreads, 20 May 2024 Overstressed and undervalued, Rita accepts a potential client’s shady proposal, which means being driven out to who-knows-where with a hood over her head. —

Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 May 2024 After Russia withdrew from an agreement allowing Ukraine to resume some export shipments through the sea, Ukraine’s military began a campaign to drive out the Russian Navy. —

Andrés R. Martínez, New York Times, 17 May 2024

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