drive out

phrasal verb

drove out; driven out; driving out; drives out

: to cause or force (someone or something) to leave

They drove the invaders out.

The family was driven out of the neighborhood by rising real estate prices.

Examples of drive out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Hundreds of thousands of mothers are being driven out of the labor force, families are being confronted with soaring child care costs, and return to office is forcing everyone to change their care strategies. —Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 8 May 2024

The concept dates as far back as New York’s advertising industry in the 1960s, when executives would leave work early to drive out to the Hamptons. —Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 7 May 2024

In Colombia in April, in response to a lawsuit filed by a farming couple who were driven out of their home by flooding caused by heavy rains, the country’s constitutional court recognized the links between environmental disasters and climate change and people being forcibly displaced. —Anastasia Moloney, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2024

The final season details what happens now that (SPOILER ALERT) Cobra Kai has been driven out of the Valley in the Season 5 finale. —Joe Otterson, Variety, 2 May 2024

But Baig has declared that the days of extremists driving out polio workers are over. —Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 2 May 2024

However one measures it, the JV will eventually dominate the distribution market for live sports and will drive out competition, leaving consumers captive to the JV for live sports – unless Congress and regulators intervene. —Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 May 2024

Instead, the aim, analysts say, is to displace populations, drive out communities, and keep areas under resistance control in a state of chaos. —Helen Regan, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024

Scott added that Sacramento residents often drive out to Oakland, Berkeley and San Francisco to see performers that don’t stop in the capital city. —Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 2 Apr. 2024