drift
Example Sentences
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Casual conversation in Hollywood often drifted to a familiar question: “Will Bob extend his contract again?”
From Los Angeles Times
“That’s so incredible,” she said, her fingers drifting to her elbow.
From Literature
He chose a shady spot under a vast tree with branches overhanging the water, but with the murmur of the river and the clucks, chirps, and chirrups all around, he soon drifted off to sleep.
From Literature
Of our frenetic, lonely, tech-driven culture, Mr. Coyle writes: “The problem isn’t that we’ve lost the capacity for meaningful connection; it’s that we have drifted from the conditions that make it possible.”
During earlier warm periods, when more ice broke off from West Antarctica and drifted northward, the iron entering the ocean was often in this poorly soluble form.
From Science Daily
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