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lose personal contact over time
The two women, who had been roommates in college, drifted apart after they got married
How To Use drift apart In A Sentence
- After twelve years of marriage, the two people began to drift apart.
- Jabbing with the point he kept off Alexei's attack until the reaction of their mid-air collision made them drift apart again.
- They drift apart now, halfheartedly nosing the stiff, sapless remnants of field hay; sometimes one will lift and gaze back toward the barn. Two Poems
- Jan. 6, 1912: Alfred Wegner, a German scientist and explorer, stuns a meeting of the German Geological Association when he presents a theory that all of the Earth’s continents were once part of a supercontinent he called Pangaea, but that tidal forces caused them to drift apart. Breaking Up Was Hard to Do
- Where languages grow most unlike one another as they drift apart is in the shapes of their words.
- After twelve years of marriage, the two people began to drift apart.
- If you do nothing, there's a danger you could drift apart.
- After twelve years of marriage, the two people began to drift apart.
- Without the cement of regular meetings or contact, they gradually began to drift apart.
- If there is any twosome in a family likely to drift apart, it is a pair of brothers.