How to Use drive-in in a Sentence

drive-in

noun
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  • The teen idols squired Evert and Navratilova to a drive-in movie.
    — Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023
  • There’s a sick, pink, B-movie drive-in glow to much of the picture.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 May 2024
  • The two share the grief of that loss — and a motorhome on the lot of a drive-in movie theater.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2023
  • In mid-June, the drive-in will be open seven days per week.
    — Melanie Savage, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2024
  • But the coolest amenity is the drive-in movie theater that plays flicks in the middle of the desert.
    — Brittany Anas, House Beautiful, 2 Sep. 2023
  • While prices at the drive-in have risen over the years, most menu items still sit under $10.
    — Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 22 July 2023
  • This was back when Frisch's was a drive-in with carhop curb service.
    — Annasofia Scheve, The Enquirer, 26 June 2023
  • Find the complete list of drive-in theaters and what to know below.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The priest invited the boy to drive-in movies and to spend the night in the rectory, where the priest offered him beer.
    — Ruth Graham, New York Times, 23 May 2023
  • This film plays every night at the drive-in theater before the main show.
    — Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2024
  • The 275 parking spaces help make up what is one of the last drive-in theaters left in Michigan.
    — Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2024
  • In keeping with the Art Deco theme, the venue is meant to pay tribute to the world’s first drive-in movie theater which opened in 1933.
    — Camryn Harris, Town & Country, 21 June 2023
  • But Fayetteville is going to have a drive-in theater again.
    — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The grocery and liquor store was a standalone building and the parking lot was as lively as any 1960s drive-in.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2023
  • For a quick fuel-up, there’s a drive-in location in Portsmouth, at 365 Park Avenue.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The drive-in fast-food chain is offering corn dogs for only 99 cents - plus tax, of course - all day on Wednesday, March 15.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 15 Mar. 2023
  • At one point, Kandice looked over and saw a drive-in movie theater lit up, with people streaming into the lot and a man in the box office.
    — Marisa Kwiatkowski, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
  • The two stood together in the clearing, just a few feet from Northern’s campsite, which decades ago was the site of a drive-in movie theater.
    — Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Feb. 2024
  • In order to get the freebies, teachers must make another purchase and use the drive-in chain’s app.
    — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The question is, will movie theaters become obsolete like in the 1970s golden age of drive-in movies?
    — Letters To The Editor, Orange County Register, 17 June 2024
  • Nugget ice, also called pebble ice or Sonic ice (named for the drive-in, fast food chain), is perhaps the trendiest ice.
    — Jonathan Bender, Popular Mechanics, 26 July 2023
  • Since the early-1930s, drive-in cinemas have allowed people to enjoy a film in a more unique, novel way.
    — Brittany Natale, Redbook, 6 Apr. 2023
  • More:Michigan's 11 drive-in theaters There is over 10 acres of land, including a pole barn and office space.
    — Jordan Green, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2024
  • Anderson and the saucer car were at The Suds for a few hours, said Susan Wagner, who took over operation of the drive-in in 2023.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The experience is a little like attending a drive-in movie in space.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Set at the Cheshire Fairgrounds on the edge of the small town of Swanzey, Northlands emerged from the drive-in concerts that became popular during the pandemic.
    — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2024
  • Nostalgia for the drive-in movie theater may not be enough to prevent its extinction.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Apart from New York, which has the nation’s lowest rate of car ownership, most cities are designed around cars — and nowhere more so than L.A., home to the first freeway, the first drive-thru and the first drive-in.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Not to mention, the town of Warwick is packed with wineries, orchards, hiking trails, and novelties like a drive-in theater.
    — Erika Veurink, Architectural Digest, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The final sequence, in particular, is a climactic event that plays out at a drive-in movie theater.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 6 Sep. 2024

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