- past tense form of drive.
drove
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Among them, a 1989 Honda Prelude 4WS, the same type of car he drove in high school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Yemen's years-long civil conflict killed tens of thousands of people, uprooted millions and drove the country to the brink of famine before a 2022 truce restored relative calm.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Somehow they hitchhiked to find a rental car and drove cross-country to Warren Wilson College in western North Carolina, where I still live and teach environmental education.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
His innings finally came to an end when he drove a Nathan Lyon delivery to Mitchell Starc at long-off during the afternoon session.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Often we drove down the village street in broad daylight so everyone could see us.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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
McDonald’s and other chains have rolled out deals for the past two years, helping bring some customers back—but not in droves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
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
As California’s primary neared, people staked their dollars on the state’s races in droves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Yet, the minute he got out of prison, he started attracting droves of people to an opposition party in Angola.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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 Captain's Road, which links two droving inns, Tibbie Shiel's and Tushielaw, was one of the earliest metalled roads connecting the Ettrick and Yarrow valleys.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2022
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
Harry was much the younger of the two brothers; for some years he had been away droving, and the news of his brother's misfortune was bringing him home from a Queensland station.
From The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy by Edward Dyson
