drifter
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The tag was also, incidentally, a play on “The Blue Dahlia,” a 1946 movie written by Raymond Chandler and starring Veronica Lake as a plucky drifter who helps the hero track down his wife’s murderer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
“A man makes his choices,” Baldwin’s crusty, guilt-ridden drifter says to his grandkid at one point.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025
An unearthed archive of an art lover's interviews with an ageing LS Lowry have revealed he saw himself as "a drifter" who knew a lot of people but "never had a girl".
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2024
It might have helped if Siff had a sturdier partner, but Alexander’s wan emo sensibility lacks the haunted charisma of a sexy drifter attempting to move on from his past.
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
Or it could be a drifter who had come through town and they’d buried him where he’d dropped dead.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
Bunney described jellyfish as weak swimmers or "passive drifters" which rely on ocean currents to carry them.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
In “Moby-Dick,” Herman Melville describes Nantucket as an “ant hill in the sea,” an isolated outpost for whalers and drifters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
Juliette Lewis has played murderers, drifters, alcoholics, punk rockers, Reiki healers and roller-derby captains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025
It has become an oasis for the disaffected, the drifters and the curious who are trying to escape the cutthroat competition and suffocating political environment of China’s megacities.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
From my window I watched the swaying lanterns, and ahead of them the slumping figures of the drifters, heading for the next town.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
