What's the difference between driveway and droveway?

Driveway


Definition:

  • (n.) A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But it is difficult not to conclude that the survey, which ends on St Andrew’s day, 30 November, has been something of a fools errand for those loyal driveway-trampers.
  • (2) Partial surface capping, as would occur with driveways and patios, was found to have a minor effect on soil gas pressures.
  • (3) (There are expensive cars in his driveway, I later found, but he is still taken to the airport in a tiny old Peugeot 106 by a retired Maltese taxi driver named Charlie.)
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bill Earley's cleans off his driveway in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
  • (5) I sat in the driveway eating takeaways when I couldn't face going inside and drove for miles singing my heart out to Springsteen songs, tears running down my face.
  • (6) A high proportion of toddler injuries occurred in residential driveways and were caused by vehicles backing up.
  • (7) Although the majority of pedestrian fatalities to older children have been shown to be due to "dart-outs" into traffic with the child being struck by an oncoming car, pedestrian fatality incident for children less than five tended to occur when the child was backed over in the home driveway by the family van or light truck driven by a parent.
  • (8) Photograph: Mae Ryan for the Guardian On our last morning in town, Deb intercepted me in the driveway to explain how fragile I was.
  • (9) Anyhow, if the Edstone is living a new life as a driveway on the south coast, we need to know about it.
  • (10) Then in August the convoy of the EU ambassador was shot at by the hotel's driveway entrance.
  • (11) This is important for a number of reasons: • It means residents are not just forgotten people who live down the end of a driveway.
  • (12) Nyamwasa was shot in the stomach in 2010 as he drove into the driveway of his upmarket Johannesburg home.
  • (13) The letter stated: “The properties are mostly houses with a low rental charge and normally come with access to a garden and in some instances have a private driveway.
  • (14) Another approach is to slow down water runoff with grass roofs, porous paving on driveways and even simple water butts.
  • (15) Those who have driveways are often blocked into them.
  • (16) His work has often been obliquely autobiographical – never quite his story, but yes, he was a history boy back in the day preparing for Oxford; yes, you could draw comparisons with the repressed gay man he plays in A Chip in the Sugar; yes, he did give refuge to a tramp who parked her van in his driveway for 15 years, and so it goes.
  • (17) According to the study findings, there is a need to educate the public and health professionals about the risks associated with leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle and the hazardous environment of the private driveway.
  • (18) He gets into the car and, as his mother and their elderly neighbour Sato-san look on, he motors down the narrow driveway, past the cracks caused by the earthquake.
  • (19) Halfway down the driveway he turns and fixes his gaze on the home he is leaving behind.
  • (20) He went outside into the driveway, leaving his wife, Nancy, in the house.

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