: 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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Then in the summer of 2004, police were summoned again to Epstein’s home on a report of a suspicious vehicle in his driveway.
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Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 4 June 2026
One of his neighbors, who uses a walker and whose driveway is already full with the cars of family members, resorted to parking across the base of his driveway — and had his truck towed as a result.
—Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 4 June 2026
One post included security camera footage showing two coyotes hunting an opossum on the driveway of a house in the Barber Tract.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2026
My father was running the skid steer outside, clearing the snow, leaving dirty white mounds to either side of the driveway that led from the house out to the range road.
—Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
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Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 4 June 2026
One of his neighbors, who uses a walker and whose driveway is already full with the cars of family members, resorted to parking across the base of his driveway — and had his truck towed as a result.
—Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 4 June 2026
One post included security camera footage showing two coyotes hunting an opossum on the driveway of a house in the Barber Tract.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2026
My father was running the skid steer outside, clearing the snow, leaving dirty white mounds to either side of the driveway that led from the house out to the range road.
—Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
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“Driveway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/driveway. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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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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