How to Use driven in a Sentence

driven

adjective

• They are driven, successful people.
• Again, this is a hell of a lot easier with a driven dog.
  — Tony J. Peterson, Outdoor Life, 24 Feb. 2020
• Durant has always been one of the most driven players in the NBA.
  — Michael Rosenberg, SI.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• Aiming for the far corner, his driven effort just clipped the post and ran wide.
  — SI.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Some other whale had gnawed off Ahab’s leg; the white whale was as innocent as the driven snow.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• Alex describes Thanasis, 31, as very driven and bold in his style.
  — Tania Ganguli, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• Karim Benzema made it two with a low, driven finish on the half-hour mark.
  — SI.com, 17 Feb. 2018
• Olivia is hoping to meet a loyal, loving and driven man.
  — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2023
• Everyone's driven and ready to bring Bringston Univeristy to life and bring the characters to life.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 6 July 2021
• Nia Long—again, a type—is the very driven Black woman who’s at the top of a news organization.
  — The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2023
• The war has left half a million people dead and driven millions out of the country since the conflict erupted in 2011.
  — Frank Jordans, Star Tribune, 1 June 2021
• The subtitle reveals that these tired souls are more driven than drawn.
  — Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2017
• And given how many people die in human-driven cars every year, that could save lives in the long run.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 4 June 2018
• There are easier ways for a smart and driven person to earn a living.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2021
• That experience helps Meade stay driven to help Alaskans quit -- and stay quit.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2020
• In his first game since the snub, Sexton certainly looked driven to prove his naysayers wrong.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 2 Feb. 2020
• As a dancer, Ella is passionate, driven, and committed to the craft of dance.
  — Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2024
• But, as is often the case with driven people who genuinely have a love for academia, that wasn’t enough to fulfill her.
  — Ruhama Wolle, Glamour, 13 July 2021
• Schultz, who died Thursday at 80 from cardiac arrest, was a driven man.
  — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Oct. 2021
• Not as savage as, say, a Rimac Nevera, but that comes with more than twice the power, four driven wheels, and a £2 million price tag.
  — Alex Goy, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2022
• Friends and acquaintances describe a driven man with a fierce intellect and a healthy ego.
  — oregonlive, 29 Sep. 2019
• Bence remembered Geis as a smart, intense and driven athlete -- much like Prefontaine, also on the team at the time.
  — oregonlive, 31 Oct. 2019
• Jupiter, the planet of abundance, spends its last full week in the bold Fire sign of Aries, and all zodiac signs are likely to feel more driven as a result.
  — Dossé-Via, refinery29.com, 9 May 2023
• One of the things about the FBI is that it’s filled with very intelligent, very ambitious, very driven people.
  — Danielle Turchiano, Variety, 24 Nov. 2021
• In our driving, the switch from two to four driven wheels was all but imperceptible.
  — Michael Simari, Car and Driver, 8 Dec. 2017
• Kreiz, an Israeli who's been described in press accounts as a driven workout junkie, made his first mark in the mid 1990s, just a few years out of business school.
  — Bloomberg, latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Platt will play a driven high school student who is determined to work his way to the presidency.
  — Paula Bernstein, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2019
• Her older brother, Blake, told Dateline that Loghan is very driven.
  — NBC News, 8 Feb. 2022
• McDonald is leading the company, playing the brash and driven stage mom Rose.
  — Dave Quinn, People.com, 9 Oct. 2024
• Eugenia is brassy and sarcastic and very driven and Capricorn-y.
  — Mia Taylor, Parents, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024