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drove

[drohv] / droʊv /


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In the restaurant, the friends catch up, chatting about the cars they drove here, the progress of their current car projects and the route for the day.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

My wife and I had two Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrids, which we drove for 10 years and thoroughly enjoyed until the battery died in one and Chevy wanted $35,000 for a new battery.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

The stand-out year relevant to this question is 2012, when Alonso drove his best season and took the title fight to the final race in what was statistically the fourth quickest car.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

Brandon Nimmo drove in the go-ahead run in the 10th inning and the Texas Rangers beat the Angels 4-1 to snap a five-game road losing streak.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

Brugman and Driedger drove to their rooms in Vancouver, promising to come back the next day.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

The app has boosted lesser-known businesses and sent tourists in droves to unconventional locations such as Zibo, a quiet industrial city in Shandong, after its cheap, marinated barbecue skewers went viral.

From Barron's Jul. 13, 2026

But whether the issues alone will be enough to "turn the tide for foreign investors to come back in droves to the Indian markets, remains uncertain", says Singh.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

Rich Klaben, a dealer with Ford and Jeep-Ram stores in Kent, Ohio, pines for the smaller Ford Ranger that his family dealership used to sell in droves in the 1980s and 1990s.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2026

As California’s primary neared, people staked their dollars on the state’s races in droves.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2026

And people were still pulling out of Philadelphia in droves.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

Cattle that have been two weeks at grass may, however, be safely droved.

From Cattle and Cattle-breeders by William M'Combie

In a practice known as turkey droving, thousands of birds, some wearing tiny leather boots, were herded through fields and along rough roads on a three-month journey.

From BBC Dec. 24, 2025

The bridge across the River Rede was situated on a historic droving route used by farmers to move large numbers of sheep and cattle between England and Scotland.

From BBC Dec. 15, 2020

Gunbar, a dusty village with fewer than 100 people, is typical of the stops along the droving route of rutted, red dust roads.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 21, 2014

Growing up in Moree, in outback New South Wales, he would go droving at weekends while he was still at school.

From Time Magazine Archive

An you had had as much raiding as we borderers, you would have learned the trick of quiet cattle droving.

From A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler




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