Below you will find example sentences with "drove off". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Drove Off in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: drove
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 8
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 23 words

Words in this phrase

drove off

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • drove can mean: A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures. Frequent word
  • off can mean: In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point. Very common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

abandoned and drove off 1× and then drove off leaving his 1× as he drove off 1× as he drove off at which 1× but he drove off along the 1× convoy and drove off 1× corrections busses drove off with those 1× ground and drove off in her 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

after robbing us 1× carjackers knocked a 1× carlos brito and 1× despite entreaties by 1× frankly joe biden 1× he waved and 1×

Common sentence endings:

and drove off 4× a u turn 1× a605 towards whittlesey 1× daughter s death 1× he drove off 1× into the boy 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

car 4× tried 2× left 2× victim 2× ground 2× video 2× suv 2× joe 2× now 2× bridge 2× vehicle 2× new 2×

Related phrases

off balls laid off pull off turn off turned off pulled off kick off cut off paying off drove away

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around drove:

drove away 13×

Just before it in the phrase index:

drove away dropping off dropped off drop off drop kick drop box

Just after it in the phrase index:

drug abuse drug administration drug dealing drug discovery drug enforcement drug law

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

drove away

Same ending:

laid off pull off turn off turned off pulled off kick off

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "drove off" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 23 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as abandoned and drove off, and then drove off leaving his, car, tried and left stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with off balls, laid off, pull off and drove away, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with drove off

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Again they were unsuccessful and drove off empty-handed. (9 words)

The Profits got in and the SUV drove off. (9 words)

He waved and flashed a grin as he drove off. (10 words)

Longer example sentences

The boxer posted a highly-edited video on Instagram which featured Khan presenting his wife with a large bouquet of red roses before he and his wife drove off in the car, which has red balloons hung from the new vehicle's windows. (43 words)

Carjackers knocked a pregnant woman to the ground and drove off in her SUV with her 2-year-old son still inside, running over her as they fled her home in unincorporated Libertyville Thursday, authorities said. (36 words)

After robbing us, they drove off the main road to the left, passed a railway level crossing and turned right and then left again and drove for 400 metres before making a U-turn. (34 words)

Example sentences (20)

She then tried to confront him as he drove off at which point he drove at her again, into her bike and snapped the rear wheel.

After robbing us, they drove off the main road to the left, passed a railway level crossing and turned right and then left again and drove for 400 metres before making a U-turn.

When he stumbled and fell, Nabiev drove over him, dragging his body under his car, and then drove off leaving his victim lying on the ground.

Instead, Verner drove off touching off an intense police manhunt after video surfaced of him slamming into the boy.

The suspects then drove off with the victim and eventually dropped him off in Etwatwa.

Again they were unsuccessful and drove off empty-handed.

Carjackers knocked a pregnant woman to the ground and drove off in her SUV with her 2-year-old son still inside, running over her as they fled her home in unincorporated Libertyville Thursday, authorities said.

Carlos Brito and Deputy Manuel Santos responded to the call, they allegedly found Bouzy in a car and tried to speak with him, but he refused and drove off.

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Despite entreaties by the journalists who kept pestering him with questions, he snubbed them and stepped into one of the waiting cars in his convoy and drove off.

Frankly, Joe Biden couldn’t lose to RFK, Jr. right now if Joe drove off a bridge in Chappaquiddick with a campaign aide sleeping in the back seat of the car.

He waved and flashed a grin as he drove off.

However, the carjacking failed, and the men returned to the vehicle they had abandoned and drove off.

New York City corrections busses drove off with those arrested as their pro-Palestine friends cheered.

The boxer posted a highly-edited video on Instagram which featured Khan presenting his wife with a large bouquet of red roses before he and his wife drove off in the car, which has red balloons hung from the new vehicle's windows.

The now viral doorbell camera clip shows the surprisingly bold instance of porch piracy in full - and how the suspect dashed directly to his BMW after snatching the package and drove off.

The offender got back into the hatchback which drove off towards Dandenong.

The officer challenged Frost and alerted on-duty officers, but he drove off along the A605 towards Whittlesey.

The other employees were stunned upon seeing that the truck never went to the weighing scale (bridge) at the silos, but the driver drove off after loading.

The pair drove off with Ms Caddick's parents in tow, none the wiser about the circumstances of their daughter's death.

The Profits got in and the SUV drove off.

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