Drives-off Sentence Examples

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  • Her husband doesn't care—he's got the dough so he closes the deal right there and the guy drives off in the Pace Arrow!

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  • The people kiss the cross and bow down to it; and ever after Christ's spirit is enshrined in it; it cures disease, drives off demons, and wards off wind and hail.

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  • The males are polygamous, and during autumn and winter associate together, feeding in flocks apart from the females; but with the approach of spring they separate, each selecting a locality for itself, from which it drives off all intruders, and where morning and evening it seeks to attract the other sex by a display of its beautiful plumage, which at this season attains its greatest perfection, and by a peculiar cry, which Selby describes as "a crowing note, and another similar to the noise made by the whetting of a scythe."

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  • Her husband doesn't care—he's got the dough so he closes the deal right there and the guy drives off in the Pace Arrow!

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