drive home
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.05 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drive, home.
Example Sentences
- "He grunted as he drove each nail home."
- "Karli shook himself, drove home the last nail with a flat stone, straightened up."
- "Just as Ione began to slow, she struck Ione's sword aside and drove her own blade home."
- "She had dropped sideways in Gerty's big arm-chair, her head buried where lately Selden's had leaned, in a beauty of abandonment that drove home to Gerty's aching senses the inevitableness of her own defeat."
- "Anything, she thought, was better than bickering or the strange silence which drove home to her the distance between them."
- "The urgent need for vaccines was driven home by the expected postponement on Monday of Britain’s plan to reopen, caused by the spread of a variant known as Delta among the unvaccinated population."
Usage
Inflected Forms
drives home (present, singular)
driving home (participle, present)
drove home (past)
driven home (participle, past)