7 sentences with 'driven'
Example sentences and phrases with the word driven and other words derived from it.
• « The elevator, which was driven by a steel hydraulic piston, was suspended about ten feet in the air, surrounded by fire. »
• « His vanity must have driven his handlers crazy. And rightly so; in New York, he was followed by FBI agents. »
• « He was also driven by incredible ambition; under the tutelage of none other than Aristotle in his youth, Alexander the Great was inspired by the legendary Greek hero Achilles, hoping not only to match but to surpass Achilles' prowess in battle. »
• « The Romans who had settled in England were driven out, either fleeing for refuge in Wales or across the channel to Brittany in northern France. »
• « In 773, at the request of the Pope, Charlemagne invaded the northern Italian kingdom of the Lombards, the Germanic tribe that had driven out the Byzantine forces earlier. »
• « The Turks were driven by two motivations: the tradition of warfare against non-Muslims, and a direct interest in plundering defeated enemies. »
• « The early assaults on Jews and Muslims had already driven out the most dynamic economic elements in Spain, and the attack on the Moriscos and conversos (descendants of Muslims and Jews who had converted to Catholicism) drove many of them away as well. »