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Definition of driven in English: drivenadjective ˈdrɪvnˈdrɪvən 1in combination Operated, moved, or controlled by a specified person or source of power. a chauffeur-driven limousine - 1.1 Motivated or determined by a specified factor or feeling.
a market-driven response to customer needs
2(of a person) relentlessly compelled by the need to accomplish a goal; very hard-working and ambitious. my husband is a driven man Example sentencesExamples - He is driven to find his captured niece Debbie, who was kidnapped by marauding Comanches.
- Though with these two highest ranked contestants in this competition being as driven as they are it would hardly be otherwise.
- Driven by my stomach we went to walmart to stock up on munchies.
- No, they are sometimes too rough, too driven by circulation targets and proprietors with an eye for profit, too sensational, too uncaring.
- Most of my classmates, in fact, turned out to be similarly driven.
- In this, Grosvenor confounds every preconception you might have about highly driven Cambridge graduates.
- It never failed to amaze Charles how brilliant and driven she really was.
- Hyslop and Sturgeon are both in their 30s, both brought up in Ayrshire, both driven and tough.
- The women are also driven by the longing to be beautiful, which goes hand-in-hand with the desire to be a fine dancer.
- The new breed is full of confidence, driven by restless ambition.
- For those who believe that big salaries should just get bigger, the implication is that top people are driven largely by the first effect.
- He is a driven person with one goal.
3(of snow) piled into drifts or made smooth by the wind. Example sentencesExamples - So the idea that somehow we are as pure as driven snow and that we take sporting success and failure in our stride is just hogwash.
- It may never be as pure as driven snow - what sport is? - yet swimming's public reputation remains relatively intact.
- This would affect a lot of people because many bankrupts, shall we say, are not entirely pure as the driven snow.
- His assassins' motives were as pure as the driven slush.
- Were they not as pure as the driven snow back then!
- Whoever dreamt up the expression ‘pure as the driven snow’ lied.
- Even driven snow has at each flake's heart a speck of soot around which the crystal coalesces.
- Then, of course, as time went on, it was discovered that perhaps it was not as pure as the driven snow and that amendments were needed.
- You want pop as pure but biting as the driven Yorkshire snow.
- Oh of course, he is as totally pure as the driven snow in comparison!
- When it comes to that aspect in my life, I'm a pure as the clean driven snow.
- It seemed a remarkably interesting change from blue-collar soldiers and pure patriotic ‘pure as the driven snow’ operatives.
- She acts pure as the driven snow (but not cold) and she is extremely neat and clean about her desk and her personal appearance.
- So I am not exactly pure as the driven snow where the books are concerned.
- But as we have learned in this contest, Clarke is not exactly pure as the driven snow himself.
- He may be pure as the driven snow, yet in my view he should go.
- In fact they, we, are all wired together, and only the driven snow may be pure.
- You have posted twice on this board to tout both your article ‘pure as the driven snow’ and yourself.
- I also hear that we have got so besotted with cleansing ourselves to the point of the driven snow that the bosses can't even be seen in a corporate box these days.
- ‘He puts himself out there as pure as the driven snow, and he's not,’ says Jacobs.
Phrases (as) pure as the driven snow Completely virtuous or innocent; having no moral flaws. I am not exactly pure as the driven snow
Rhymes forgiven, given, misgiven, Niven, riven, shriven, thriven Definition of driven in US English: drivenadjectiveˈdrɪvənˈdrivən 1in combination Operated, moved, or controlled by a specified person or source of power. a chauffeur-driven limousine - 1.1 Motivated or determined by a specified factor or feeling.
a market-driven response to customer needs
2(of a person) relentlessly compelled by the need to accomplish a goal; very hard-working and ambitious. my husband is a driven man Example sentencesExamples - Driven by my stomach we went to walmart to stock up on munchies.
- It never failed to amaze Charles how brilliant and driven she really was.
- For those who believe that big salaries should just get bigger, the implication is that top people are driven largely by the first effect.
- Hyslop and Sturgeon are both in their 30s, both brought up in Ayrshire, both driven and tough.
- He is driven to find his captured niece Debbie, who was kidnapped by marauding Comanches.
- In this, Grosvenor confounds every preconception you might have about highly driven Cambridge graduates.
- The new breed is full of confidence, driven by restless ambition.
- The women are also driven by the longing to be beautiful, which goes hand-in-hand with the desire to be a fine dancer.
- Most of my classmates, in fact, turned out to be similarly driven.
- He is a driven person with one goal.
- No, they are sometimes too rough, too driven by circulation targets and proprietors with an eye for profit, too sensational, too uncaring.
- Though with these two highest ranked contestants in this competition being as driven as they are it would hardly be otherwise.
3(of snow) piled into drifts or made smooth by the wind. Example sentencesExamples - When it comes to that aspect in my life, I'm a pure as the clean driven snow.
- But as we have learned in this contest, Clarke is not exactly pure as the driven snow himself.
- His assassins' motives were as pure as the driven slush.
- You have posted twice on this board to tout both your article ‘pure as the driven snow’ and yourself.
- ‘He puts himself out there as pure as the driven snow, and he's not,’ says Jacobs.
- Oh of course, he is as totally pure as the driven snow in comparison!
- This would affect a lot of people because many bankrupts, shall we say, are not entirely pure as the driven snow.
- Even driven snow has at each flake's heart a speck of soot around which the crystal coalesces.
- I also hear that we have got so besotted with cleansing ourselves to the point of the driven snow that the bosses can't even be seen in a corporate box these days.
- So I am not exactly pure as the driven snow where the books are concerned.
- Whoever dreamt up the expression ‘pure as the driven snow’ lied.
- She acts pure as the driven snow (but not cold) and she is extremely neat and clean about her desk and her personal appearance.
- It seemed a remarkably interesting change from blue-collar soldiers and pure patriotic ‘pure as the driven snow’ operatives.
- It may never be as pure as driven snow - what sport is? - yet swimming's public reputation remains relatively intact.
- Were they not as pure as the driven snow back then!
- In fact they, we, are all wired together, and only the driven snow may be pure.
- You want pop as pure but biting as the driven Yorkshire snow.
- So the idea that somehow we are as pure as driven snow and that we take sporting success and failure in our stride is just hogwash.
- He may be pure as the driven snow, yet in my view he should go.
- Then, of course, as time went on, it was discovered that perhaps it was not as pure as the driven snow and that amendments were needed.
Phrases (as) pure as the driven snow Completely virtuous or innocent; having no moral flaws. I am not exactly pure as the driven snow
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