drove
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OTTAWA—Canadian manufactured goods prices continued to march higher last month as the resumption of the conflict between the U.S. and Iran drove up energy prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Collins was telling me this story while he and I drove around the town where he and his brother grew up.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
His wife, Lois, stoically drove to the site and spent more than two hours on the air with KFI talking about the accident and her husband.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Oracle’s stock has been known to move in step with the ups and downs of OpenAI’s news cycle — and that drove it to its fifth straight drop on Tuesday.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
They drove under the Mirror Tech building to a secured parking lot.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
The Los Angeles Police Department and multiple other agencies responded in droves early Saturday to reports of an illegal street takeover in the Harbor Gateway neighborhood of L.A. near Gardena.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
“Her fans came out in droves every day, from morning until night, just to get a glimpse of her or an autograph.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
“Eleanor Rigby” attracted a post-55 audience in droves, while the good-natured storyline and nautical sound effects inherent in “Yellow Submarine” drew children and pre-teens into The Beatles’ camp.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
Their numbers increased exponentially as droves began "fleeing the Covid mess … on the East Coast and West Coast," says Mark Corner, president of Southwest Montana Realtors.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
And now people began to arrive in droves.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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
But he did not know that Davey was droving for Conal, not till he asked me this morning, and I told him.
From The Pioneers by Katharine Susannah Prichard
