How to Use in the driver's seat in a Sentence

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  • Officers found Piedra slumped over in the driver's seat of the car, shot in the head.
    — Aaron Martinez, The Courier-Journal, 26 June 2023
  • Tiffiney Crawford was slumped over in the driver's seat of her van.
    — Judy Rybak, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Authorities say neither of the men were in the driver's seat at the time of the crash.
    — Matt Ott, Star Tribune, 22 Apr. 2021
  • The officer asks the passenger and Williams, who's in the driver's seat, to get out of the car and sit down.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Dan Likiko, 21, of Florence, was found with gunshot wounds in the driver's seat of his car.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The officer saw a middle-aged, white male in the driver's seat of the SUV and four golf carts in the trailer.
    — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Balmoral He's used to taking charge in the driver's seat.
    — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 3 May 2023
  • Hooper then won the bus pull by more than two seconds and was firmly in the driver's seat.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Seemingly, the Bulls should then be in the driver's seat and be able to dictate his future.
    — Morten Jensen, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
  • But the escaped inmate hopped in the driver's seat and took off on the bus, according to the TDCJ's release.
    — Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 3 June 2022
  • The biggest difference between any two cars is who's in the driver's seat.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Police later said the 23-year-old female driver of the Toyota was trapped in the driver's seat and pronounced dead at the scene.
    — NBC News, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Emotion and sentiment are in the driver's seat in the banking sector right now.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In photos obtained by E! News, Grainge was seen sitting in the driver's seat of a car while Richie grinned in the passenger's seat.
    — Ilana Frost, Peoplemag, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Police found Jacobo Borja dead in the driver's seat with a gunshot wound.
    — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 22 June 2023
  • Police found Jacobo Borja dead in the driver's seat with a gunshot wound.
    — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 22 June 2023
  • The majority of those killed when not buckled up were in the driver's seat, according to the agency.
    — Amanda Maile, ABC News, 16 May 2023
  • At some point, Wright was able to get himself into the driver's seat, Luckey said, and able to grab the steering wheel and pull himself back in the driver's seat.
    — Carma Hassan and Holly Yan, CNN, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Troche was sitting in the passenger seat, while an unidentified woman was in the driver's seat.
    — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 18 June 2023
  • And a growing number of analyses of this year's weather show that climate change has been in the driver's seat for several events.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Central Florida fell to Navy 17-14 earlier in the day Saturday, the Bearcats now find themselves in the driver's seat.
    — Keith Jenkins, The Enquirer, 20 Nov. 2022
  • While he was fastened by seat belt in the driver's seat of the overturned car, Brown fired more than a dozen shots at Allan, according to prosecutors.
    — Johnny Magdaleno, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Once firefighters extinguished the flames, officials confirmed a body was in the driver's seat.
    — The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The trooper, later identified as North, fired about seven shots through the front driver's side window at Soulemane in the driver's seat, according to the footage.
    — Chris Boyette, CNN, 21 Apr. 2022
  • With the 73-71 win and only unranked teams left on the docket, Marquette is in the driver's seat for a whale of an accomplishment, considering they were picked ninth in the preseason Big East poll.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2023
  • However, the deal Diamond made with Amazon puts them back in the driver's seat of these negotiations.
    — USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Another person in the driver's seat escapes off camera.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 20 Mar. 2024
  • As the couple was leaving the park, gusts of wind swung the gate around rapidly, enough to slice through the passenger side door of the couple's car, decapitating Nakajjigo as her husband sat feet away in the driver's seat.
    — CBS News, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Cash was in the driver's seat and Andazola was a passenger, according to court documents.
    — Tracy Neal, Arkansas Online, 18 July 2022
  • Walker has two more opportunities against big opponents - Ohio State and Penn State - and big games could put him in the driver's seat without an obvious front-runner out there.
    — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2021

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