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 drifter, he lived in Portugal's Algarve region, on and off, for years.
From BBC ● May 9, 2025
Benji, something of a chatty drifter, has never quite found himself, at least not by David’s standards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 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
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
Kristofferson turned that tale into the story of two drifters, who find love on the road and are separated, eventually, by death.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2024
He welcomed her into his commune of misfits and drifters, which called itself the Family and coalesced at a ranch outside of Los Angeles, where she found herself captivated by his wild-eyed charisma.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2023
Mom was like a saint, friendly to everyone in the neighborhood, including the homeless, the troubled, random drifters.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
