How to Use driven in a Sentence

driven

adjective

• They are driven, successful people.
• The subtitle reveals that these tired souls are more driven than drawn.
  — Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2017
• There are easier ways for a smart and driven person to earn a living.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2021
• Some other whale had gnawed off Ahab’s leg; the white whale was as innocent as the driven snow.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• If ownership and excitement are high, the team will stay driven.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
• Alex describes Thanasis, 31, as very driven and bold in his style.
  — Tania Ganguli, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• Not against a talented and driven team also trying to make a statement.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2017
• In his first game since the snub, Sexton certainly looked driven to prove his naysayers wrong.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 2 Feb. 2020
• Founders are original, driven, quirky, apt to work 100-hour weeks, drive fast cars and shoot off their mouths.
  — Rich Karlgaard, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
• That experience helps Meade stay driven to help Alaskans quit -- and stay quit.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2020
• Meanwhile, more cannabis businesspeople may feel driven to do what Ngo did.
  — Joan Oleck, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2021
• Even among the driven few, only a fraction of kids use ed-tech tools such as Khanmigo enough to see any gains.
  — Mike Goldstein, The Atlantic, 25 June 2026
• Schultz, who died Thursday at 80 from cardiac arrest, was a driven man.
  — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Oct. 2021
• According to a new study, women feel burned out, less driven and less inspired since the pandemic.
  — Kim Elsesser, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
• As a dancer, Ella is passionate, driven, and committed to the craft of dance.
  — Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2024
• Her older brother, Blake, told Dateline that Loghan is very driven.
  — NBC News, 8 Feb. 2022
• Everyone's driven and ready to bring Bringston Univeristy to life and bring the characters to life.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 6 July 2021
• Ann was the first born, and six years older than Jane, who described her older sister as smart, kind, driven, and a lively young woman.
  — Nicolás Viñuela, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2024
• Bence remembered Geis as a smart, intense and driven athlete -- much like Prefontaine, also on the team at the time.
  — oregonlive, 31 Oct. 2019
• The war has left half a million people dead and driven millions out of the country since the conflict erupted in 2011.
  — Frank Jordans, Star Tribune, 1 June 2021
• McDonald is leading the company, playing the brash and driven stage mom Rose.
  — Dave Quinn, People.com, 9 Oct. 2024
• Helping supervisors regulate their stress isn't about asking them to be less driven or less ambitious.
  — Marie Unger, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
• In basketball, however, all the trash talk, all the ego, all the alpha male bull---- can be settled with one ball, one hoop, and two people driven to prove something.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• No, the Bidens are pure as the driven snow and all attempts to imply, much less prove, otherwise, arise from unworthy motives and can be ignored.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 7 Dec. 2023
• Not as savage as, say, a Rimac Nevera, but that comes with more than twice the power, four driven wheels, and a £2 million price tag.
  — Alex Goy, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2022
• Jupiter, the planet of abundance, spends its last full week in the bold Fire sign of Aries, and all zodiac signs are likely to feel more driven as a result.
  — Dossé-Via, refinery29.com, 9 May 2023
• In the studio in Hartland, Ramos-Rivera is open minded, driven and kind, according to Smutek.
  — Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 13 Feb. 2026
• Kreiz, an Israeli who's been described in press accounts as a driven workout junkie, made his first mark in the mid 1990s, just a few years out of business school.
  — Bloomberg, latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• This exploration not only enhances her artistic practice but also reflects her opinionated and driven nature.
  — Heide Janssen, Oc Register, 15 Mar. 2026
• What is clear is that the raw material capturing one of the most enigmatic, driven and influential athletes of modern times possibly sits on a hard drive somewhere, or maybe in the cloud, waiting — perhaps indefinitely — to be unlocked.
  — Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 19 Dec. 2025