Sentence examples for driven to something from inspiring English sources
The normally sure-footed William Wordsworth, for example, was driven to something approaching doggerel after just a month spent in a house with a view of Piel (or Pile as it was known then): "I was thy neighbour once, though rugged Pile!/Four summer weeks I dwelt in sight of thee:/I saw thee every day! and all the while/Thy Form was sleeping on a glassy sea".
I have been driven to own something.
"Everyone's driven to do something quickly," Mr. Miller said.
I have been driven to leave something for my kids that was never left for me".
Maybe I had a chip on my shoulder, and I was driven to prove something to the world.
"But here, the students are more driven to get something out of it -- to really learn -- and that has been freeing for me".
And at the fourth, in Texas, a would-be builder has been driven to try something never done before in nuclear construction: finding a buyer for the electricity before the concrete is even poured.
Once again, an architect, Erhardt Shlaminger, is driven to make something that is unusual and highly personal, in this case a huge redevelopment project for Staten Island that contains a museum and condominium apartments.
It's a phrase that would sound familiar to many entrepreneurs dealing daily with the unknown, but felling all the more driven to create something.
The immune system can also be driven to attack something harmless that belongs inside you.
I am sympathetic with those who feel driven to do something, indeed to resist despair and renew the struggle for justice.
