drive off

verb

drove off; driven off; driving off; drives off

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

They drove off the invaders.

waved her hands to drive the flies off

Examples of drive off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Once inside, the group snagged an ATM, dragged it to a white pickup truck, loaded it on and drove off. — Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026

Machado nearly tied Game 4 with a 406-foot drive off reliever Abner Uribe, but Mitchell coolly tracked it down and reached just above the short wall in right-center to keep it in the yard. — Greg Beacham, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026

The only ball hit toward Volpe was a drive off the third-base bag by Christian Encarnacion-Strand. — ABC News, 25 Sep. 2026

Young was able to give a thumbs-up to the crowd, however, as he was driven off. — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for drive off

• cerenkov
• ashraf
• checkoff
• cutoff
• falloff
• handoff
• kickoff
• layoff
• liftoff
• markoff
• markov
• payoff