drift
Example Sentences
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Chancellor Rachel Reeves has told the BBC she wants to stop top British technology firms and scientists "drifting abroad" to make money.
From BBC
By this time of day, everything— from the windows of the two-story buildings to the red lanterns strung up for tourists—had been covered in the dust that somehow drifted in from the Mohave.
From Literature
My aunt’s voice drifts out from the kitchen as she hears my footsteps pounding the stairs.
From Literature
In “Aguirre, the Wrath of God,” hundreds of little monkeys invaded the raft where Aguirre is half dead, drifting on the Amazon.
“Otherwise inflation expectations, that are already drifting higher, could become untethered and make the journey back to target that much harder,” he added.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
