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Drifting
"Drifting" in a Sentence (16 examples)
The ship was drifting at the mercy of the waves.
The boat was drifting in the ocean.
Drifting off to sleep again, the same dream returned, three times in all.
Many young Japanese people are drifting aimlessly in life.
If he keeps drifting aimlessly, his late father will turn over in his grave.
I was drifting about aimlessly.
The bill was drifting along for years.
So many who see how the world is drifting away and so few who put their hands out to stop it!
The quickest way through a hairpin turn is drifting.
Houston, I am off structure and drifting.
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The drifting seaweed went wherever the currents carried it.
[Lionel] Johnson was stern by nature, strong by intellect, and always, I think, deliberately picked his company, but [Ernest] Dowson seemed gentle, affectionate, drifting.
There is nothing more expressive of a barbarous and stupid lack of culture than the half-unconscious attitude so many of us slip into, of taking for granted, when we see weak, neurotic, helpless, drifting, unhappy people, that it is by reason of some special merit in us or by reason of some especial favour towards us that the gods have given us an advantage over such persons.
True, there had been some heavy falls of snow and some of the roads had become blocked, while north of Inverness there was drifting that held up traffic here and there, but things were no worse than are expected in January.
Still, she did not regret him, for nothing Ernest could have given her would have equalled the delight of those romantic driftings on the lake with Eden.
[W]ith hollow eyes / Many all day in dazzling river stood, / To take the rich-ored driftings of the flood.
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