How To Use Drift away In A Sentence
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You grasp at it, only for it to dissolve or drift away.
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Experts are worried that attention would drift away from Asia where the virus is endemic.
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The end instrumental ‘Centre of Gravity’ is a worthy corker too, layered drone like synths that make you want to lie back close your eyes and drift away in their slipstream of cathedralesque abandonment.
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In all truth, using the correct anchor is only important if you don't want to drift away.
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Slowly, the crowds began to drift away, some back to town, others into the forest.
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Almost paradise, and all the bitterness that had been consuming my soul was slowly beginning to drift away.
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Thankfully, some of them basically drift away by the end of the film so that we are left with a core group of determined thieves who embark on the caper at the film's climax.
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In confronting the tradition of philosophy with his central insight of the radically finite temporality inherent in the Da-Sein experience, Heidegger discovers that the entire tradition of Occidental philosophy constituted a basic drift away from this chiaroscuro experience of be-ing and developed over the centuries into a metaphysics of permanent presence now coming to its perfection in the Ge-Stell syn-thetic com-positioning of modern technology in the form of global matrixes.
Enowning
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Words combine with words, or prefixes and suffixes combine with roots, in ways that over time drift away from perfect sense.
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Drift away to this sublime and beautiful track.
The Sun
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Like many young birds, especially large ones, they tend to drift away once they are fully fledged.
Times, Sunday Times
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More and more Christians are waking up to the powerful tools that are available to not only reach the young, but to uncage their minds for God, before they drift away from the church.
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As he began to drift away he also began to see her as a human being, to like and dislike her instead of accepting her as a comparatively movable part of the furniture, and he compassionated that husband-and-wife relation which, in twenty-five years of married life, had become a separate and real entity.
Babbit
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She has a tough job taking Standard Life into profit and holding onto customers that have begun to drift away.
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Some of these girls might, however, drift away again when they reach their crisis period.
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As it ends, spouses drift away to sleep somewhere else, relievedly.
Sufficient
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He said that as the phenomenon of poverty takes root in ethnic minority communities, they drift away from the social strata to which their members belonged and begin to form a new, ethnic subclass.
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If the system started to drift away from the requirements of a coral reef, Gomez would flush the trays.
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If licensing hours are more relaxed, then not only will people not feel under pressure to have their fill quickly, but they will also drift away homewards at varying times.
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Now that managed funds are doing somewhat better, will investors drift away from index funds?
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Like many young birds, especially large ones, they tend to drift away once they are fully fledged.
Times, Sunday Times
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Everything slowly began to drift away but this time, instead of the nightmares the mysterious stranger that haunted my dreams greeted me.
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Dominic slowly began to drift away from his drinking problem, though he didn't lose it completely.
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The show's creator, Marc Cherry, appeared to admit one of the incontestable truths about TV — "The only thing harder than creating a hit show is knowing when to end it" — saying he was afraid the show would "drift away into nothing" if allowed to continue indefinitely.
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After several weeks of disrupted business, the dealers began to drift away.
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Then the ship would become unmanageable and drift away, with the possibility of getting excessive sternway on her and so damaging rudder or propeller, the
South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917
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If they don't learn lessons and have humility to adapt they will drift away.
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Voices rose in an unhappy mutter, but the crowd began to drift away, and the sergeant walked over.
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You grasp at it, only for it to dissolve or drift away.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her mind slowly began to drift away from Rosetta, filling itself with questions.
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Drift away to this sublime and beautiful track.
The Sun
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Words combine with words, or prefixes and suffixes combine with roots, in ways that over time drift away from perfect sense.
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Eventually, I started to ‘wise up’ and began to drift away from him.
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If they don't learn lessons and have humility to adapt they will drift away.
Times, Sunday Times
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According to our panel all three parties, including Labour, seemed to drift away from the issue as the campaign progressed.
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Some drift away, becoming yet another errant father statistic.
The Sun
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If you 'zone out', you mentally drift away from the place you are currently, and go off into empty, dreamy space.
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Each follows the inputs nearer to it and tends to drift away from other nodes.
