How To Use Drive off In A Sentence
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The hot air flowing from furnaces in the cellar through the vents of the hypocaust went far to drive off the chill.
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Be sure to blow up the tyres before you drive off.
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Then we drive off to a friend's house-warming party.
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The robbers seize the cash, jump into fast getaway cars and drive off - through holes cut earlier into the side barriers of the motorway.
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CALCINATIO calcine (vb) To heat to a high temperature but without fusing in order to drive off volatile matter or to effect changes.
A Darker Place
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He was just about to drive off when the secretary came running out.
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Regardless of how much I cannot stand that fraud, he could literally sweep up your shorty in front of you and drive off with you left crying in the rear-view wondering how.
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Plainly, if it is possible to obtain this antitoxine in quantity and then inoculate it into the body when the toxic poisons are present, we have a means for decidedly assisting the body in its efforts to drive off the parasites.
The Story of Germ Life
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So long as this antitoxine is not present the poisons produced by the disease will have their full effect to weaken the body and prevent the revival of its resisting powers to drive off the bacteria.
The Story of Germ Life
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On June 17 2008, the men of D Squadron, accompanied by Cpl Bryant of the Intelligence Corps, left their base in Lashkar Gah to pick up a dead Taliban fighter in a village eight miles away, but were "channelled" onto well-used tracks because they could not drive off road.
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For substances with lower boiling points than water, heating can be used to drive off the more volatile substance, which can then be collected by condensing it.
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The visit of the barques, brigantines and schooners also seemed to drive off some of the tourism malaise created by a July shrouded in fog, damp and rain.
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No one answered and he had a strong urge to jump back into his car and drive off as fast as possible.
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The visit of the barques, brigantines and schooners also seemed to drive off some of the tourism malaise created by a July shrouded in fog, damp and rain.
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Jack duffed his drive off the first tee.
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These days they dig whole slabs of marble or granite out of the ground and drive off with them in the back of a van.
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The oil having been allowed to settle all night, the litharge solution is drawn off, and the oil run into a shallow tank or "bleacher," where it is exposed to the light to improve its color, and is, if necessary, steamed to drive off the lighter hydrocarbons and raise the flashing point to the legal minimum of 95° F.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887
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We didn't really see his car drive off.
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He started to drive off, but the boot sprang open.
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Its got a top speed of 185 and would cost you a cool £110,000 to drive off the forecourt.
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The flash drive offers built-in hardware-based data encryption in 1 GB and 2 GB capacities.
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How do we decide who is to drive off first?
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As Tina Wright folded her pushchair yesterday, she turned around to see the bus drive off down a Colchester street without her.
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As much as we like to imagine sauropods stamping their feet and lashing their tails to drive off the vicious theropod predators, the scenario is unlikely for a simple reason.
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Each in a different car, they drive off in opposite directions after having embraced one last time.
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Be sure to blow up the tyres before you drive off.
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Gary DiSarcina began the sixth inning by blasting a line drive off Johns' kneecap.
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Just drive off the cliff and take in the tangle of cobbled streets and ochre houses as you plunge to the port at the bottom.
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This antitoxine neutralizes the effects of the diphtheria toxine, and then the body develops strength to drive off the bacteria which have obtained lodgment in the throat.
The Story of Germ Life
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The user simply gets in and can drive off straight away.
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Things only got stranger when I looked out the window while I was locking the door and saw the strange man climb onto the driver's seat of the horseless buggy and drive off.
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‘Often I've seen engineers jump in the vehicle, turn the engine on, blip the throttle, then drive off,’ he says.
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Just drive off the cliff and take in the tangle of cobbled streets and ochre houses as you plunge to the port at the bottom.
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Substitute Gary McSwegan thundered a 20-yard drive off the post before arriving seconds later right on cue in the six-yard box turning a low centre past McKenzie.
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He turned aside Tomas Plekanec's drive off the right wing, made a solid stop on Mark Streit's slapper from the point and denied Saku Koivu's backhander in the slot to keep the game scoreless.
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The word curricle made Charles Musgrove jump up that he might compare it with his own; the servant in mourning roused Anne’s curiosity, and the whole six were collected to look, by the time the owner of the curricle was to be seen issuing from the door amidst the bows and civilities of the household, and taking his seat, to drive off.
Persuasion
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Don't forget, belt up before you drive off.
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The men started to drive off with their intended victim but she scratched the face of one of her attackers and escaped.
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Every January, we would pile into the car with my parents and drive off to escape the heat of Cordoba city.
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If monkeys, crows, or other bold marauders are overnumerous, he probably has to sit out in the rude watch-house in the little clearing and keep the scarecrows moving, or by shouts and other means drive off the uninvited pests.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
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An armed company of the kerne, carrying halberds and pikes and led by a piper, attack and burn a farmhouse and drive off the horses and cattle.
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The hole begins with a drive off an elevated tee to a fairly wide, tree-lined fairway.
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Said Tim: ‘I had got in the car and was about to drive off when I heard a faint miaow.’
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Hester saw them drive off, and a few minutes later Mr. Gresley started on his bicycle for a ruridecanal chapter meeting in the opposite direction.
Red Pottage
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In return, I was treated with enough respect to get me through, if we forget the incident at Point 6 when I was left alone with 20 pissed up protesters “by mistake” (for a few seconds) as the van revved up and pretended to drive off amid much hilarity from the team!
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The bow doors would open, allowing the cargo of tanks, armoured cars, bulldozers or lorries to drive off, and the LST would then wait for the flood tide to float it off again.
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I drive off, and warm instantly to the strong, even accelerative force; this is as smooth and muscular as the best four-cylinder turbodiesels apart from Honda's, and rather creamier than the Mondeo version.
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They had to use tear gas to drive off the rioters.
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The word curricle made Charles Musgrove jump up that he might compare it with his own; the servant in mourning roused Anne's curiosity, and the whole six were collected to look, by the time the owner of the curricle was to be seen issuing from the door amidst the bows and civilities of the household, and taking his seat, to drive off.
Persuasion
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This antitoxine neutralizes the effects of the diphtheria toxine, and then the body develops strength to drive off the bacteria which have obtained lodgment in the throat.
The Story of Germ Life
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These days they dig whole slabs of marble or granite out of the ground and drive off with them in the back of a van.
Times, Sunday Times
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We keep dogs in the yard to drive off intruders.
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Then we drive off to a friend's house-warming party.
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Heating oil shale to a sufficiently high temperature will drive off a vapor which processing can distill (retort) to yield a petroleum-like shale oil-a form of non-conventional oil-and combustible shale gas (the term shale gas can also refer to gas occurring naturally in shales).
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Proud Ilkley ex-pats living in the Antipodes could drive off with a unique personalised car registration plate.
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The smoke comes from cow dung fires used to drive off flies and mosquitoes.
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The cow twitched its flanks to drive off flies.
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A heavy blow to the temple from a full alcopop bottle left him bleeding heavily and as he tried to drive off, the group climbed on to his car and attempted to break the windows.
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Don't forget, belt up before you drive off.
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The robbers seize the cash, jump into fast getaway cars and drive off - through holes cut earlier into the side barriers of the motorway.
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Originally it referred to the form of gypsum which has been heated to a high temperature to drive off the water in its crystal structure; this is called calcined gypsum.
Gypsum
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You have to literally drive off the beaten path to get there; a gravel road that traverses over a single lane bridge takes you up a winding path to a parking area.
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Yet his new partner Mahela Jayawardene nearly perished when he mis-timed a drive off Giles.
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Mackay then cut in from the right and smashed a powerful drive off the underside of the crossbar.
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Don't forget, belt up before you drive off.
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the riverside drive offers many exciting scenic views
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Yet somehow the usual automatic impulse to drive off invaders of his territory had been lulled into quiescence.
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Said Tim: ‘I had got in the car and was about to drive off when I heard a faint miaow.’
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These days they dig whole slabs of marble or granite out of the ground and drive off with them in the back of a van.
Times, Sunday Times
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The woman tried to drive off, but Gatty jumped on the bonnet and kicked the windscreen, smashing it.
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Just drive off the cliff and take in the tangle of cobbled streets and ochre houses as you plunge to the port at the bottom.
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