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driving

If something is driving, it is moving quickly and strongly. The driving wind blew the rain sideways.

driving

(= impulsive) having the power of driving or impelling a driving personal ambition the driving force was his innate enthusiasm an impulsive force acting with vigor responsibility turned the spoiled playboy into a driving young executive the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal (= drive) hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver he sliced his drive out of bounds

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Simple sentences

It's driving me crazy.
Fred and George took turns with the driving.
You're driving me crazy.
Tom tried to impress Mary by driving very fast.
You're driving way too fast.
Tom was arrested for driving without a license.
Tom has never owned a driving licence.
Tom wasn't the one that was driving.
You're driving way too slow.
He has been driving without driving licence for twenty years.
He has driven without driving licence for twenty years.
This is driving me crazy.
What are you driving at?
My driving instructor says I should be more patient.
Records certify that Bob passed his driving test.
Driving along the coast is wonderful.
We took turns with the driving.
We took turns driving the car.
He amazed everyone by passing his driving test.
He managed to pass his driving test even though he was a poor driver.
The rain was driving against the windows.
I must make up for lost time by driving fast.
Thank you very much for driving me all the way to my house.
Dangerous driving should be punished.
Each of us has to be careful when driving.
Don't speak to him while he is driving.
When you are driving, you should make way for ambulances.

Movie subtitles

Your mother is driving me crazy!
Man, if you was a black man driving around with a dead white guy in the back of your ice cream truck, you'd know the answer to that!
I didn't see, but he must have, as did someone else driving a Jaguar.
I'm driving his worship home.
The sooner you pass your driving test the better.
And you passed your driving test in 1935?
I'd been driving two years prior to that, but I prefer to keep things tidy.
Nurse Crane assures me she's never made a claim in almost 30 years of driving and no-one has ever made a claim against her.
And it's still possible that Nurse Crane may face charges of reckless driving or driving without due care and attention.
Well, it's driving me mad.
Why aren't we driving to the door?
Seems like that's what he's driving at.
Yeah, what are you driving at?
Mother! What are you driving at?
Keep driving straight.
The driving force of this poor life was greed for fame and the fountain from which it was nourished was pain.
What are you driving at?
Fine, but stop driving my customers away.
Is the car I'm driving?
You're driving her crazy!
You're driving her crazy.
The only way we can save Eva is by finding the place where the living corpse of the vampire rests and driving a stake through its heart.
It was a good deed, driving a stake through the heart of that poor girl.
Stick to your driving, mug.
Were you driving it? - Yes! - You're out of luck here.
What the devil are you driving at?
The guilt's driving me crazy.
Tell him it's driving me crazy.
Be a long walk back, pal, we've been driving for nearly an hour.
A driving licence form and some other ID stuff you'll need to fill in.
I'm not that skilled in my driving skills yet.
Here comes, be careful with your driving.
I even fell asleep and he kept right on driving.

News and current affairs

We don't do it, because we give safety a lower priority than our desire to spend less time driving.
As one scientist friend puts it: if you are driving on a mountain road, approaching a cliff, in a car whose brakes may fail, and a fog bank rolls in, should you drive more or less cautiously?
The driving force is external demand, as Germany, the world's second-largest exporter, profits from the global boom.
The specter of a nuclear Iran haunts Arabs and Israelis alike, but it is the United States and Israel that are the driving force behind efforts to curtail Iran's nuclear ambitions.
If all of this happened, the price of oil would skyrocket owing to shortages and fears, possibly driving much of the world economy, already in a precarious position, into recession.
What can American Tea Party enthusiasts, Russian chauvinists, fearful Dutch and Danes, and Singaporean leftists possibly have in common that is driving this anti-immigrant sentiment?
Europe's leaders are now contemplating what to do, and their next move will have fateful consequences, either calming the markets or driving them to new extremes.
But, while Chancellor Angela Merkel is justified in insisting on this, it is driving her in the wrong direction.
This would remove one of the two main driving forces of the current market turmoil.
Such continuing political inertia leaves an increasingly young Arab population prey to the appeal of extremist ideologies, while driving the best and brightest to seek their fortune elsewhere.
At the same time, the liberalization of FDI regimes by virtually all countries has been a driving force of intra-firm trade - the lifeblood of the emerging system of integrated international production and already around one-third of world trade.
Today's conventional wisdom is that the rise of India and China will be the single biggest factor driving global jobs and wages over the twenty-first century.
The real driving force has been two-fold.
Structural concentration of incomes at the top is combining with easy money and a chase for yield, driving equity prices upward.
As legions of new consumers gain purchasing power, demand inevitably rises, driving up the price of scarce commodities.
It was a demonstration of the special relationship between France and Germany that has for so many years been the driving force in European integration.
America's president is captive to the country's labor unions, who buy the false narrative that trade with poor countries is increasing the ranks of the poor in the US by driving down wages.
While it may be convenient to hold others accountable for America's problems, this is bad economics driving bad politics.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the necessity that had been driving containment disappeared.
Today, Europe will be critical to driving progress, particularly in the event that the US Congress torpedoes a sensible agreement.
Spurred into action, the government launched initiatives to support disadvantaged and immigrant students, and made the notion of early childhood education a driving force in German education policy.
The European Central Bank is staying calm for the moment, but it, too, is probably holding back on interest-rate hikes partly out of fear of driving the euro, already at record levels, even higher.
That fear is one of the principal forces driving Xi's reform agenda.
If Germany no longer acts as the driving force of European integration, then European integration is a thing of the past.
South Africa is a notable exception, offering the best prospect for driving regional economic integration, but it, too, has chronic social problems and, compared to East Asia, anemic economic growth.

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