Example sentences for: drove

How can you use “drove” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We drive motor vehicles as we once drove horses; indeed, until 1900, the very question Can you drive? meant Do you know how to drive horses?

  • (Kansi drove away and was captured abroad much later.)

  • Ballmer's comments almost singlehandedly drove the tech-heavy Nasdaq--"tech-heavy" is an adjective permanently attached to "Nasdaq"--to its worst performance in five months and sent Microsoft's shares (which, full disclosure, I own) down 5 percent.

  • The rally also drove the S&P 500 above 1000 for the first time ever.

  • The LAT off-leads with a report on the "soft growth" of jobs in August, which represented the smallest increase since May but drove unemployment down to 4.2 percent, giving investors hope that the Fed won't raise interest rates at the next policy meeting, in October.


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