DRIVER in a Sentence

Learn DRIVER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
202 example sentences for DRIVER, such as:
1. Don't be a back seat driver.
2. And the driver buried his face in his mug.
3. An impatient driver behind me sounded his horn.
4. The driver jacked up his car to change the flat tire.
5. The bus driver swerved to avoid hitting the cyclists.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DRIVER
driver
 n.  (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device
 n.  a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver
Classic Sentence: (137 in 10 pages)
1  He then hailed a cab, and ordered the driver to take us to the address given us by Lestrade.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
2  In the dingiest and dreariest of them our driver suddenly came to a stand.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
3  The driver jumped down, and I saw him open the door and stand expectantly.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
4  Beside the driver there sat a man who could not have been more than thirty years of age, but whose massive head and resolute expression marked him as a leader.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
5  Whenever a horseman clattered down the road, or a driver shouted at his team, the old farmer hurried to the gate thinking that help had arrived at last.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
6  I followed it so close that the nose of my horse was within a yard of his driver the whole way.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
7  Sure enough, there in the yard was a large closed van, drawn by two horses, with lettering on its side and a sly-looking man in a low-crowned bowler hat sitting on the driver's seat.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
8  The driver wanted no directions, but lashed his horse into full speed, without the delay of an instant.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
9  Seeing 'Hounslow' written on it, he asked the driver with as much civility as he could assume, if he would give them a lift as far as Isleworth.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
10  Thus addressing Oliver, he helped him into the cart; and the driver, pointing to a heap of sacks, told him to lie down there, and rest himself.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
11  Not a word was spoken; for the driver had grown sleepy; and Sikes was in no mood to lead him into conversation.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  In another second or two, the nightcap was thrust out of the chaise-window, and a stentorian voice bellowed to the driver to stop: which he did, as soon as he could pull up his horses.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
13  The driver walked beside it; and, like his van, he was completely red.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
14  As soon as the vehicle and its driver had withdrawn so far as to be beyond all possible reach of her voice, Mrs. Yeobright turned to her niece.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
15  And the driver buried his face in his mug.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete
Example Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1  The taxi driver was obviously in the wrong in going ahead against the red light.
2  The bus driver swerved to avoid hitting the cyclists.
3  Don't be a back seat driver.
4  The driver is responsible for getting the troop of colobus moving through the canopy.
5  The driver's version of the accident was different from the eyewitness'.
6  Disgusted onlookers claimed the driver was more concerned about his car than about the victim.
7  Any crack in a car windscreen always seems to be right in the driver's line of vision.
8  Now he knows he's in the driver's seat and can wait for a better deal.
9  I saw a man shouting at a driver whose car was blocking the street.
10  An impatient driver behind me sounded his horn.
11  The driver promised to drive me to the railway station, yet he begged off at the last minute.
12  The driver jacked up his car to change the flat tire.
13  The coach driver made several pickups before heading for the airport.
14  The lorry driver pulled into the side of the road and got out for a cup of tea.
15  The driver delayed the drive until the weather cleared.