driveway

Noun

Meaning

A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

drive access road private road avenue lane interstate causeway expressway highway inlet way front approach gateway alley

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Hypernyms

road route

Phrases with the word

driveway doesn't go all the way to the road pipestem driveway his driveway doesn't go all the way to the road driveway access someone's driveway doesn't go all the way to the road

Examples

I was raped in a driveway when I was eleven. ... It was a terrible experience because we had all that gravel. Tallulah Bankhead

I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail. Dan Fogelberg

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway. Marilyn vos Savant

I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another? Paul Simon

I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway. Catherine Keener

I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck. Henry Winkler

Close letter words and terms

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