drift

While watching smoke from wildfires in Canada drift over Minnesota, Winker said she has also been monitoring the Spanish fires.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

In a slow, steady drift, which is worse, because you never see it on any single day.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

Layers of synthesizers bubble and brood; vocal samples drift in and out of tracks, flat and unsettling, alluding to God and human biology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

During this phase, their outer layers churn and gradually drift into space, while the dense cores left behind shrink into white dwarfs.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

Then I let myself drift, because there’s really no fighting it.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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

Anything that drifts too close to the dreaded category of “dump and stir,” a phrase that has done real reputational harm to a perfectly sensible technique?

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

The mercury could climb to 38C in Ukraine this week as Europe's deadly, record-breaking heatwave drifts eastward, engulfing the western half of the war-torn country.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

They trudged along as fast as they could, over patches of grass, and through thick drifts of old leaves; and all about them the rain pattered and trickled.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Clouds drifted toward the sun as totality approached.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Florian Wirtz, playing primarily as Liverpool's number 10 under Iraola, has drifted to that flank to provide a third option capable of playing centrally, deep or out wide.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

His English was not fluent and he drifted between jobs before becoming an Uber driver.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

It drifted all the way down to 40, which means that only $40 was being spent on puts for every $100 being spent on calls.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

‘Soon they drifted into evil, warped by their hunger for power.’

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Whether from the latest smoke drifting south from Canada or record-breaking fires here at home, the lesson is the same: We have neglected active forest management for far too long.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

The reel he posted later showed white smoke drifting across the street beneath a simple caption: "Delhi Police doesn't realise I'm from Jamuna Paar."

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

The court heard that Zambada suffered from several health conditions and would need treatment in custody, with Judge Cogan describing him as "drifting towards cognitively impaired."

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

Designed to mimic the feel of stunt cars, its four-seated vehicles will twist and turn through banks in the track in an effort to create a drifting sensation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

I could feel my heart pounding in my neck as I listened to the last of their voices and their laughter drifting away outside.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo