: a private road giving access from a public way to a building on abutting grounds
Examples of driveway in a Sentence
A long driveway led to the mansion.
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His battered and blood-soaked luxury car was sitting in the driveway, cops said.
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Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 12 July 2025
Deputies found Ammon Watson, who lived in Oakland Park, fatally shot lying in a driveway around noon on Aug. 24, 2024, near the 2100 block of Northwest 28th Street.
—David Goodhue
july 11, Miami Herald, 11 July 2025
Ammon Watson, 18, was shot and killed in the driveway of a home on Northwest 28th Street shortly before midnight on Aug. 24.
—Kathy Laskowski, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2025
Officers from the East Hartford Police Department responded to a call of an unresponsive male found in a driveway of a residence on Westbrook Street on Jan. 9, 2022.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2025
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Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 12 July 2025
Deputies found Ammon Watson, who lived in Oakland Park, fatally shot lying in a driveway around noon on Aug. 24, 2024, near the 2100 block of Northwest 28th Street.
—David Goodhue
july 11, Miami Herald, 11 July 2025
Ammon Watson, 18, was shot and killed in the driveway of a home on Northwest 28th Street shortly before midnight on Aug. 24.
—Kathy Laskowski, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2025
Officers from the East Hartford Police Department responded to a call of an unresponsive male found in a driveway of a residence on Westbrook Street on Jan. 9, 2022.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2025
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“Driveway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/driveway. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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driveway
noun
drive·way
ˈdrīv-ˌwā 
: a short private road from the street to a house, garage, or parking lot
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