Sentence examples for be driven back from inspiring English sources

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be driven back

noun

Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.

  • Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.

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First the cancer must be driven back with chemotherapy.

But after struggling with this live chat I may be driven back to the couch.(Joke).

This Christmas, Beauty asked to be driven back to Oklahoma City, to stay with her mother.

I could have demanded to be driven back to the rooming house.

North Vietnamese would pop out of bunkers, only to be driven back by machine-gun fire.

Quite often she saw nothing of Mrs. Travers until it was time for her to be driven back to work.

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Some were driven back over the hills.

The Pakistan Taliban are being driven back by army offensives.

Toulon win the lineout but Bakkies Botha is being driven back.

They were driven back, but the truce is temporary.

Saracens have been driven back outside the 22.

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