drift

This can include cases in which toxic chemicals drift into neighboring fields or communities and sicken people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Powerful winds break up the ice cover, causing individual floes to move, drift, and collide with one another.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

He can stay wide and isolate a full-back, attack the space behind a defence or drift inside and combine with Barcelona's other forwards.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

By late afternoon, yields had reversed course again to drift higher—and ever closer to 5%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

I walked over to an old high-water drift and picked up a club twice as big as the one Papa had.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

The immense umbrella cloud that forms does not behave like a normal ash plume that simply drifts with the prevailing wind.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Sea-level rise is measured in millimeters, so tiny drifts in the reference frame prevent accurate calculations of coastal risk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Instead, it drifts with the currents, measuring temperature, the amount of salt in the water and pressure as it moves through the waves.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Elsewhere, the conversation drifts into questions about public-records databases, investigative reporting, grant applications, and the ways institutions classify professional expertise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

He pulled it upright out of the drifts and dug out the knapsack and shook it out and opened it and stuffed in one of the blankets.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

Many Germans I've spoken to feel their nation has drifted away from the things that once anchored their identity.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

His gaze then drifted once more, devoid of emotion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Although the system was conceptually elegant and mathematically orderly, it gradually drifted farther away from the natural seasonal cycle it was meant to organize.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

As my mind drifted, the sound of a breeze, created by handheld fans, filled the room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Him and Dad had drifted across the road too, as Dad was drawn to the machine.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

In the sky, reporters and pilots keep an eye out for one another, warning when one is drifting too close to another or if there is something else to keep an eye on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

The hazardous smoke has led to an increase in respiratory problems, forced schools to close, and has been drifting to neighbouring countries including -- Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines.

From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026

Their rarity and longevity make them especially valuable to researchers studying glacier retreat, changing ocean conditions and the risks posed by drifting ice in polar regions.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

The bodies were now being recovered further away from the scene of the sinking, some of them drifting towards Zambia, the Herald reports.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Ever since becoming stuck in the ice, the ship had been steadily drifting north with the pack.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong