How to Use drive-in in a Sentence

drive-in

noun
  • 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
  • The film passed the $1 million mark after a month of drive-in movie theater buzz.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 28 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • That whole sequence at the end, the entire drive-in movie theater, that took us three weeks.
    — Marc Malkin, Variety, 8 Oct. 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
  • In the late ’70s, Hooper’s movie had made its way from first-run theaters to the threadbare drive-ins of New England.
    — Chris Nashawaty, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The drive-in chain is promoting a $1.99 menu for a limited time as well.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 24 Jan. 2025
  • From dine-in to drive-in and drive-thru, here are five restaurants that are their brand's sole survivor in Michigan.
    — Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 16 Dec. 2024
  • There are a few menu items at our favorite Southern drive-in chain that are hard to resist.
    — Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • The beloved burger joint is known for their classic drive-in fare, from burgers to dogs to onion rings to milkshakes.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Pitch a tent at one of the free hiker or biker campsites or pull your car up to one of a handful of drive-in sites (from $10).
    — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 26 Feb. 2025
  • In the second jolt this week to Parker County, the 1950s-style Malt Shop hamburger drive-in is for sale.
    — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Feb. 2025
  • For a quick fuel-up, there’s a drive-in location in Portsmouth, at 365 Park Avenue.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Performance so far is strongest in the west of Germany, and the title is seeing strong drive-in play.
    — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2024
  • 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 pedestal had an unusual feature for the drive-in resorts of the day: A sidewalk arcade of shops and restaurants that enlivened street life on Collins Avenue.
    — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 23 Mar. 2025

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