Sentence examples for were driven back from inspiring English sources

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were 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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Some were driven back over the hills.

But they were driven back by blinding smoke.

They were driven back, but the truce is temporary.

Crews brought in to cut down trees along the road were driven back by the heat.

With their armor gone, the German infantrymen became disorganized and were driven back.

Several neighbors tried to enter the home but were driven back by intense flames and heat.

Over the next months the Germans were driven back to the Vistula River and the Carpathians.

We used to skate, shoot, dry-ski, and then we were driven back home.

Other teeth were driven back toward his tongue and damaged tissue.

The sultan's forces intervened but were driven back by the southerners and their Makian allies.

Here, they too went into the safe haven to look for the diplomats, but were driven back by the smoke.

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