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
• 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 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
• The grocery and liquor store was a standalone building and the parking lot was as lively as any 1960s drive-in.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2023
• The beloved burger joint is known for their classic drive-in fare, from burgers to dogs to onion rings to milkshakes.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2024
• Pitch a tent at one of the free hiker or biker campsites or pull your car up to one of a handful of drive-in sites (from $10).
  — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 26 Feb. 2025
• Pitch a tent at one of the free hiker or biker campsites or pull your car up to one of a handful of drive-in sites (from $10).
  — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 26 Feb. 2025
• In the second jolt this week to Parker County, the 1950s-style Malt Shop hamburger drive-in is for sale.
  — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Feb. 2025
• In the second jolt this week to Parker County, the 1950s-style Malt Shop hamburger drive-in is for sale.
  — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Feb. 2025
• For a quick fuel-up, there’s a drive-in location in Portsmouth, at 365 Park Avenue.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2023