- past tense form of drive.
drove
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Zemian and Amundson complied and had started to exit the parking lot when a local police officer drove in.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Regardless of what drove the company’s profit expansion, Alphabet has cemented itself as a major driver of S&P 500 earnings growth, according to a FactSet report released on Friday.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 26, 2026
“I drove past a couple days ago and they looked orange,” the 26-year-old said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Some, like Federico Perez and his wife Gilia, drove hours from nearby provinces.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
You found clothes for us and got our meals, drove us places, and took us to your sister’s house for Thanksgiving.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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As droves of tourists flock to Yosemite, it raises the question: Is it still possible to have a fun time there despite the crowds?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The app has boosted lesser-known businesses and sent tourists in droves to unconventional locations such as Zibo, a quiet industrial city in Shandong, after its cheap, marinated barbecue skewers went viral.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
"People started arriving in droves, they started bringing tools. But the firefighters who were there said it was impossible to get through, and they left."
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
In New York City, where the cakes are sold on select days in the Upper East Side’s Butterfield Market, people continue to show up in droves, lining up hours before the cakes are even stocked.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026
But the next day people began arriving in dozens, then in droves, some from Trokorpe and nearby villages, disheveled, distraught, grown men sobbing like babies.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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Cattle that have been two weeks at grass may, however, be safely droved.
From Cattle and Cattle-breeders by M'Combie, William
In a practice known as turkey droving, thousands of birds, some wearing tiny leather boots, were herded through fields and along rough roads on a three-month journey.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025
The Captain's Road, which links two droving inns, Tibbie Shiel's and Tushielaw, was one of the earliest metalled roads connecting the Ettrick and Yarrow valleys.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2022
Gunbar, a dusty village with fewer than 100 people, is typical of the stops along the droving route of rutted, red dust roads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2014
I simply drove into the subject and when it comes to droving into a subject a Durante admits no peers.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Let us go together droving, and returning, if we live, Try to understand each other while we reckon up the div.
From In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses by Lawson, Henry