How to Use drive-in in a Sentence

drive-in

noun

• The teen idols squired Evert and Navratilova to a drive-in movie.
  — Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023
• There’s a sick, pink, B-movie drive-in glow to much of the picture.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 May 2024
• The two share the grief of that loss — and a motorhome on the lot of a drive-in movie theater.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2023
• But that was Lionel who loved the drive-in; John doesn’t care.
  — Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 31 July 2025
• In mid-June, the drive-in will be open seven days per week.
  — Melanie Savage, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2024
• But the coolest amenity is the drive-in movie theater that plays flicks in the middle of the desert.
  — Brittany Anas, House Beautiful, 2 Sep. 2023
• While prices at the drive-in have risen over the years, most menu items still sit under $10.
  — Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 22 July 2023
• This was back when Frisch's was a drive-in with carhop curb service.
  — Annasofia Scheve, The Enquirer, 26 June 2023
• The cafe is replacing an Olathe drive-in of more than 50 years.
  — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2025
• In brief, the car itself may become the drive-in theater.
  — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 22 June 2025
• The film passed the $1 million mark after a month of drive-in movie theater buzz.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 28 Jan. 2025
• Find the complete list of drive-in theaters and what to know below.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 15 Apr. 2024
• The priest invited the boy to drive-in movies and to spend the night in the rectory, where the priest offered him beer.
  — Ruth Graham, New York Times, 23 May 2023
• This film plays every night at the drive-in theater before the main show.
  — Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2024
• That whole sequence at the end, the entire drive-in movie theater, that took us three weeks.
  — Marc Malkin, Variety, 8 Oct. 2024
• Richard Hollingshead opened the first drive-in theater in New Jersey in 1933.
  — Janie Osborne, New York Times, 22 May 2025
• The 275 parking spaces help make up what is one of the last drive-in theaters left in Michigan.
  — Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2024
• In keeping with the Art Deco theme, the venue is meant to pay tribute to the world’s first drive-in movie theater which opened in 1933.
  — Camryn Harris, Town & Country, 21 June 2023
• But Fayetteville is going to have a drive-in theater again.
  — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 16 Feb. 2023
• In the late ’70s, Hooper’s movie had made its way from first-run theaters to the threadbare drive-ins of New England.
  — Chris Nashawaty, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024
• Built in the 1970s, West Wind is not only the last drive-in movie theater in the area — but one of the few left in California.
  — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 14 Mar. 2025
• The drive-in chain is promoting a $1.99 menu for a limited time as well.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 24 Jan. 2025
• From dine-in to drive-in and drive-thru, here are five restaurants that are their brand's sole survivor in Michigan.
  — Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 16 Dec. 2024
• The Sulphur Springs are located at the only drive-in volcano in the world, which last erupted in the 1700s.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 16 May 2025
• The drive-in just completed a restoration of the marquee board that greets fans and tells them what movies are scheduled for the night.
  — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 30 Apr. 2025
• There are a few menu items at our favorite Southern drive-in chain that are hard to resist.
  — Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2025
• There are 50 tent sites, including 24 walk-in sites and 26 drive-in sites, as well as five car-camping sites.
  — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2026
• But for young couples at drive-in theaters, that lack of separation was part of the appeal.
  — Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
• More sports should do drive-in double features of a classic flick and then a game.
  — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2026
• If there isn't a drive-in in your town, look for one nearby or at your vacation spot.
  — Parents, 11 June 2026