How To Use Drift In A Sentence

The remaining three evolutionary forces are nonadaptive in the sense that they are not a function of the fitness properties of individuals: mutation is the ultimate source of variation on which natural selection acts, recombination assorts variation within and among chromosomes, and genetic drift ensures that gene frequencies will deviate a bit from generation to generation independent of other forces. A Disclaimer for Behe?
There are drifts of feverfew, clouds of philadelphus, grasses whispering in the breeze, and everywhere the perfume of 1,000 blossoms keeping the countryside alive in the heart of London.
I've got to make a couple of very hard decisions on a daily basis instead of taking the easy drifty way out.
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They drifted into the control room and floated above the sensor-generated hologram of the â€œherd. â€ The â€œherdâ€ consisted of approximately 3,000 mountain-sized blocks of ice that once were comet 2P/Encke. 365 tomorrows » 2006 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day

A voice drifted down through the hatch above our heads, ‘I'm amazed,’ it said. ‘Only three people have chundered so far.’
There is a slow drift into crisis.
Adopting, the additional computative burden imposed by it notwithstanding, Schonfeld's modification of Airy's formulæ, he introduced into his equations a fifth unknown quantity expressive of a possible stellar drift in galactic longitude. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
I was madly scrambling into my drysuit while Bill got the details from the divers, who had been drifting with this group for an hour or so.
a drifting double-dealer
Stewart's pigeon house almost succumbed under a drift six feet high, and half the pigeons escaped where the weight of sand forced an opening in the galvo.
Since 2001, areas north of Point Conception to an intersect with the Oregon coast has been closed to drift gillnet fishing from August 15th through November 15th in order to protect endangered leatherback and loggerhead sea turtles. Permit to Kill Pacific Sea Turtles and Whales Requested by Seafood Company
The move "bedward" was almost simultaneous and the drift toward slumberland not far behind. Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation
Instead, his dull eyes flicked disinterestedly from ice house to ice house, noting the plume of smoke drifting from each.
Meanwhile, the brownish-blackish gunk is drifting along the coast to the northeast, Brower said. The Lovecraft News Network
Impressionistic cloud cities carved in some kind of webbed driftwood. Beowulf's Children
More and more men were transformed by the mutating power of the great clouds of Chaos magic drifting from the poles.
Tom swayed on his backswing because his hands drifted too far away from his body, pulling his torso with them.
Festival-goers began to drift off as the evening drew to an end.
I feared the snow would bury the words beneath its drifts.
But faculty and many of the most gifted students began to drift else-where.
caught the general drift of the conversation
Slowly it drifts down across the sea-curled weeds, the anchored life of the marine world.
Anything could be waiting for them in its white, drifty depths. May Bird, Warrior Princess
Our mercenaries (Blackwater and Haliburton and their minion) will still be on the ground, interfering with the new government whenever it drifts from the preordained path carved out by the American government since The Carter Doctrine. CNN Poll: Americans overwhelming support moving US combat troops out of Iraqi cities
She felt strangely weightless and ready to drift off with the next breeze.
The breeze drifting through my window is warm, and somewhere I hear a bird crying over the water.
When I went for my walk this afternoon there was still no sign of snow, though the drifts of fallen May blossom along the hedge bottoms kept my mind on the topic.
He was severely concussed and drifting in and out of consciousness.
Tired after two performances that day, she began to drift between sleep and wakefulness.
The firewood, soaked in oil, blazed up immediately, and his boat became a beacon of flame, drifting downstream towards Lake Tallian.
Secondly we changed the sampling mode, using dual monostable multivibrators to select the focusing window, which solves the sampling drift problem raised by SCM break.
Bernice lay contentedly at the edge of a sand embankment white as driven snow, her chin cupped in her hands, watching half a dozen or more mullets drift and swing in the limpid clear water below. The Mystery at Number Six
Dried manure ground into fine powder by hooves and wagon wheels puffed up into the air and its pungent smell filled the town and drifted far outside the town.
Jabbing with the point he kept off Alexei's attack until the reaction of their mid-air collision made them drift apart again.
Domestic policy is drifting leftward, but there are sharp limits on how far it will go.
Any drift starting or stopping within the experiment may create artifacts, although the trials are randomized in a balanced order.
She leaned out of the window, trying to enjoy the fresher air; a scent of burning rubber drifted in.
But its audience is being drawn away by the internet, and advertisers are following the drift. Times, Sunday Times
Australian authorities have found no signs of foul play aboard a Taiwanese fishing boat found adrift and abandoned off western Australia.
Poster boy of creationists everywhere, he has cut himself adrift from the world of real science. Behe vs. Dawkins
Our relationship started well, descended into hate-hate, recovered somewhat to love-hate and, latterly, has drifted into respectful acceptance.
They drifted off course and they lost their moral compass so badly it was always going to come to a head. Times, Sunday Times
Someone had opened a window and the cool morning breeze drifted in and ruffled the white hospital curtains.
But I drift from the point, which is: what is a sane, accomplished, professional clarinet player to do while stuck out in the boondocks?
In a two-locus model, the gametic (and therefore genotypic) frequencies need not be constant across generations, even in the absence of selection, mutation, migration and drift, unlike in the one-locus case. Population Genetics
We got caught in it anyway being too high up when it drifted towards us - dense pouring cloud - filling in every clough and gulley between us and the hills over the valley.
The court affidavit describes in hard-core detail how the other victim remembers drifting in and out of consciousness as Warren sexually assaulted her.
It mixed with the humid air that was around and drifted towards the motorway becoming a thick smog. Times, Sunday Times
The survivors were adrift on a raft for six days.
Which was what she was thinking about as she drifted back to the present, to feeding the ducks on the pond. AFTERMATH
Everybody in the place, even the pick and shovel man at the end of a drift, consults his book.
A flaring sunset touches the trees with colours of flame and molten copper; reddens even the bullrushes and the ropes of ivy which drift, among their own reflections, in the river.
It is time the Government acted now to cut them adrift. The Sun
The beautiful sounds of the Welsh Male Voice Choir of South Africa will drift across the lake's waters, while the Meropa Basadi group will play carols on marimbas and drums, giving the occasion a memorable African feel.
He drifted apart from those who loved him the most. The Sun
Her mind wandered from one area to another, until the sandman finally came and she drifted off into a deep sleep.
A tiny fishing boat was drifting slowly along.
I would worry about long term calibration drift, though. IPCC AR4: No skill in scientific forecasting « Climate Audit
Feeling the fog begin to rise inside her head, a drifty sensation as if gravity had suddenly lost its hold on her. BLACKWATER SOUND
It helped paint a picture in my mind where for a moment I drifted off in a dream of great adventures to come.
The elements we feel and see shift and drift and suspire Perpetual Light : a memorial
She stepped aside into the doorway of the next room while Luch drifted out and down the stair.
When Bath won an attacking scrum on the right and Swift began to drift across his marker did not follow him.
I stare at the snow drifting outside my window, at the nearly deserted street below, trying not to think about anything.
The trail begins near the entrance to the town, extending through patches of dogberries and fireweed, along a beach filled with driftwood and shells and into a wooded area.
She untied the rope and set the boat adrift.
The scent of turpentine and oil paint drifts through his open window from his neighbor's house.
The ship was drifting on the ocean.
A tiny fishing boat was drifting slowly along.
Driven by a penetrating east wind, it drifted until every hollow and depression was filled and the landscape assumed the appearance of a vast white prairie.
She sat down on a piece of driftwood that sat on the beach, and looked out to sea.
(and a title echo) with the tale of a small-town girl falling in love with a drifter who has a hairy past. Undefined
The restaurant drifts into decking areas for when the sun shines. Times, Sunday Times
They both went to their next classes, but the day drifted by slowly.
On one occasion we enjoyed a medium drift down a V-shaped channel, watching the usual teeming reef life flash by below and finning back every now and then to peer into crevices before being swept on.
The wind is drifting the snow.
The light from the torches played across her face as she drifted into slumber.
He knew the hidden drifts in that part of the river.
His wounded hand wrapped in towels, he is raising the vodka bottle to down its remnants, when "his gaze drifted over the top of the cabinet door and he saw the camera". The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The wind drifted the snow into huge mounds.
Through the blown scud the clamour of the bell came mournfully to us over the waves; in the blown drifts of rain we saw the bawley labouring to us. Movie Night
The result leaves Pool nine points adrift of safety. The Sun
A street cleaner already cleans the main thoroughfares but wind eddies can blow drifts of crisp packets and chocolate wrappers into alleys and hedges, he said.
Lots of red clover and bird's-foot clover in the fields, drifts of white daisy faces, and the sumac is almost ready to bloom. Sunday roadkill report
Whenever, by the judgment of the town council of any town, a highway or driftway in the town, or any part of either, has ceased to be useful to the public the town council of the town is authorized so to declare it by an order or decree which shall be final and conclusive.
Jack and Mary had been married for a long time but gradually drifted apart until they separated.
Jack, an outcast and drifter himself, feels a connection with the tinkers and takes the job which, in turn, takes Taylor to perilous places within and without.
We found some, but not the great swathes that we had hoped for, although we were rewarded by plenty of patches of bluebells, drifts of wood anemones, a glade with masses of milkmaids and lots of primroses, cowslips and violas and bugle.
Then driftingly came the thought that she would not shrink from Wade's reading her mind. The Mysterious Rider
Tell your wife you worry you are drifting apart. The Sun
In the outland beyond the city people naturally have stocks on hand, because you never know when the weather will take down your juice and you'll be stuck in the house in February behind four-foot drifts with no phone and no lights.
In 1881, the schooner Ellen Austin, bound for London, discovered a derelict adrift in the Sargasso.
These and the hedgerows drifted in and out with the ebb and flow of the firelight, but the two piebald horses were too far away to be seen, although they could be heard occasionally, blowing and stamping.
The paper outlines the situation that Sanxiao experience is popularized for rock drift excavating also its economic efficiency in aspect of promoting driving rate of advance and decreasing cost.
The drift apart had been gradual.
You get that for drifting slightly above a 30mph speed limit. The Sun
I slipped away from the port and went along the deck to the break of the poop, where I held on and stood staring through the gray and spray in the conjectural direction of our drift. CHAPTER XXXVIII
These stones include a 52.40 carat clean light fancy yellow diamond from Holpan; a 60.52 carat light yellow octahedral diamond from Saxendrift; a 74.99 carat clean white irregular blocky stone from Saxendrift; a 54.23 carat light yellow broken macle stone with inclusions from Saxendrift; and a 60.51 light yellow rounded flat stone with oxide coating and minor inclusions from Saxendrift. News24 Top Stories
Drift-netting is another example of our inability as humans to establish a sustainable relationship with the planet.
The captain and his crew were left drifting aimlessly on the tiny raft after their boat, the Gullborg, exploded south of Shetland almost 32 years ago.
Above me, two white clouds drifted with imperceptible motion across a luminous blue sky. DOUBTING THOMAS
Himself a monarchist conservative, he had little time for some of the politicians who drifted in and out of office in Berlin. DARE CALL IT TREASON
The movements did not so much drift apart as come to represent opposed interests.
Floating clouds of colour spun and drifted. Times, Sunday Times
Some people just drift through life.
The lights above glared down on them all, a rack of suns illuminating a drifting fleet of ships.
American television and cinema to my recollection has always featured sanctimonious public preachifying, to the extent that Eastwood mocks this rift in the American consciousness in “High Plains Drifter.” Fundamentalist obsession with the Crucifixion (Why are some people obsessed with the Crucifixion?, pt. 2)
After the band stopped playing, people drifted away in twos and threes.
They are as though adrift at sea without compass or destination, so they might as well demand that theirs be a pleasure cruise. Christianity Today
A tidy item that — sixty to seventy thousand dollars 'worth of mule flesh; and the superintendent, over the phone, orders the moving of the mule herd to another potrero away from the line of Federal driftage. Our Adventurers in Tampico
But the man didn't quote Scripture, just drifted away.
You have the picture of a party that is rudderless and adrift, with no clear-cut strategies of providing principled opposition on issues.
But the French like nothing better than endless discussions and over-intellectualizing, so Allen's cinematic navel-gazing never lost its luster here -- even as his films became stale and a chunk of his American audience drifted away. Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: The Other Side of Midnight in Paris
For 16 almost uninterrupted years, cancellation left us adrift in time. Times, Sunday Times
This huge stretch of coastline is dominated by offshore barrier islands built by the surf out of drifting sand.
Macroalgae benefit from this relationship because fertile drift plants are retained in the photic zone where they continue to contribute to the gene pool.
The boy drifted into a bad habit.
It would also be in line with the gradual drift towards fuel tax harmonisation across the Community.
Gomersal are still ten points adrift of Yeadon, who had the better of their drawn home match against Farsley.
They pop open the cartridges and begin to paint with brushes, tossing spent containers to drift and litter the sea floor.
I'm sorry, I can't quite catch the drift of what you're saying.
It was populated by festering drifts of trash, with large dumpsters rising out of the junk like weird islands, and a few old-fashioned tin trashcans here and there.
When we arrived in Chicago, there were 6ft-high snowdrifts and the wind was howling.
But chaff drifts with the wind. ONE HUNDRED DAYS
If the distribution is, in fact, bimodal, that means that the median and mode are drifting apart. Escalation of Income, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Drifts of sea pinks coloured the soft grass of the cliff tops and house martins zipped by flashing their pure white rumps.
Neil said. 59 Arm drift is just the way that neurologists tell that the anesthetic has arrived.
Three insulating panels had come adrift from the base of the vehicle.
The two tiny fishing boats drifted apart in the storm.
Him drifting around stylish wooden houses while battling existential despair? Times, Sunday Times
He had no choice but to ease his foot on the accelerator and let his speed drift down to about 20 mph.
They are very noticeable as they hover or drift around in a sleepy, sluggish way. Times, Sunday Times
However, preliminary genetic analyses showed offspring admixture was probably caused by apicultural drift (beekeepers' term for the change of hive or colony).
He told me of one such time, when he'd been sent to the store with the money put in his mitten, on returning he'd stopped out front and the change, a nickel, somehow slipped out into a snowdrift.
He worries also about the slow drift of journalism out of the public consciousness.
At about 07:30, just after the troops had crossed the drift, they formed a hollow square formation comprising 4156 whites and 1152 blacks.
This choice allowed us to travel comfortably with the wind at our backs while viewing the constant vista of mountains and valleys, the ice-speckled Atlantic Ocean in the distance dotted with floes of drift ice from Quebec and Labrador.
Banks of primroses, drifts of bluebells and clusters of cowslips are now found only in secret, out-of-the-way places.
The noises of the camp drifted up over the grade fitfully, dreamily; some new hunger that might have been called homesickness was urging a new tone into the evening sounds. The Return of Blue Pete
Stems, twigs and driftwood embedded in the sand and mud were used to carbon-date the core sections.
Materials and food prices began to drift downwards from the summer of 1973.
They made towards it as the first flare hit the sea, continuing to burn, with clouds of smoke drifting upwards.
The result has seen them gain ground on rivals Spain and France but they are still well adrift of leaders Brazil.
Inclinometer is an Instrument testing drift angle and azimuth of drift hole.
Smoke from burning fields drifted across nearby roads.
The double doors are open, and conversation drifts through from the next room.
His 990 cc Yamaha will be bucking and drifting towards the blind left-hander at the bottom of the Craner section.
Maybe there would even be a few pieces of decent driftwood.
The steel and the heat treatment process of fine heavy load drift was determined by means of production tests. And the satisfactory result was obtained.
England's tactics were dismal and negative, letting the game drift in an almost fatalistic manner. Times, Sunday Times
In short, we had to pander to the general belief that drifters were losers who were ashamed of their personal histories.
The storage dynamics in doped lithium niobate are studied. It gives that the equations of the migration of charges is due to diffusion or drift and photovoltaic effect.
Once off the A19, the roads to Kepwick were bordered by thick drifts of snowdrops and we found more growing alongside winter aconite in the small churchyard.
Once an asteroid drifts into either of those regions, it's hard for it to get out.
A fourth mistake was the withholding of our wheat from world markets in 1929, with a view to forcing - one might as well be frank - higher prices, and the associated policy of cutting adrift from the established wheat trade selling agencies in Great Britain and elsewhere. Our National Task
It's going to be called The Drift, its another hard-boiled fiction.
Certain words drift into the realm of nothingness to be eminently forgotten.
Some of them stumbled back the way they had come, dragging frozen tanks and trucks out of ice and snowdrifts.
When you're faced with the problems of ovality, camber, or drift in drawn or cast tubing, we'll use counterboring to re-size a hole to a controlled dimension.
While the young drifter proves he's not so heartless when he saves one of the kids from drowning, he is certainly not above cuckolding Les.
The vehicles will go through deep drifts for short distances when the momentum of the vehicle will carry it through.
Cold and hungry, they drifted helplessly towards the Arctic.
The only way for Democrats to reverse the slow rightward drift in constitutional law is by winning elections.
I was ensconced on the sofa reading the paper when its shrill beeping tone drifted down the stairs.
Mountain goats have to contend with narrow ice-covered ledges, deep snow drifts and avalanches.
Sadly, I see signs that we might be drifting in that direction. Times, Sunday Times
Our arguments, our anger, the anxious pleading of philanthropists who saw the young on the East Side going to ruin, the warning year after year of the superintendent of schools that the compulsory education law was but an empty mockery where it was most needed, the knocking of uncounted thousands of children for whom there was no room, uncounted in sober fact; there was not even a way of finding out how many were adrift, 3brought only the response that the tax rate must be kept down. II. The Outworks of the Slum Taken
They were passing through a grove of low trees now, with drifts of creamy blossom and the waxy green leaves of citrus trees.
As long as you know what to expect and are well prepared, drift diving can be a real blast!
Their body warmth heated the upper floor where their humans lived and, if the snows of winter and the snow-drifts off the roofs piled up very high, the farmers could still shovel their way down to their snow-bound herds.
I sort of blinked, decided I was dreaming again - I often dream there's someone ringing or knocking at the door - and drifted back to sleep.
He sat as though paralyzed in the coracle, which drifted in the shallows a dozen ells away. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
Odd noises, strange instruments, keening vocals; its tunes wind themselves around your heart like drifting smoke.
More recent comments have drifted in the direction of the threat to social partnership being created by unreal pay expectations.
His voice tailed off as he drifted into sleep.
Plumes of spindrift were scouring the top, leaving nothing but a swooping white cleaver of ice.
Once viewed as a relic, continental drift and seafloor spreading evolved into the modern concept of plate tectonics.
Through these broadcasts we can watch Germany drifting into a war in 1939 followed by the string of amazing victories in 1940.
He barely managed to reveal the whereabouts of his ill-gotten gains before drifting into unconsciousness. AMAGANSETT
He has warned ministers to guard against a drift towards ‘a surveillance society’.
There were lights of the fishermen out on the jetty beneath The Bluff - and there was a white shape drifting in the water close to the shore.
Slowly, pushed by their shoulder ionics, Gimp, Ramos and Frank Nelsen drifted over to see what they could do for Lester. The Planet Strappers
For the first week, Emma paced at night and watched a late snow curl in drifts around the mailbox at the corner and the lamppost beneath her window.
These errors, which result in what is called antigenic drift, explain why the flu virus is different each season and why new vaccines are needed each year. Influenza Glossary
Natural light seeps through to every sump, and it is magical to drift through the maze of stalactites studded with reflective crystals, the light dancing in the beams of our torches.
In the midst of the morning rush-hour his laughter drifted after her, curling round her senses and inflaming her still further.
Because of ‘chemical drift’ those poisons are carried by the wind into towns and cities.
Rheingold was narrowly beaten in the Derby by Roberto, given an especially forceful ride by Lester Piggott, while Hawaiian Sound might have held off Shirley Heights in 1978 if he had not drifted away from the rail in the final furlong. Barry Hills to retire as trainer and hand licence to son Charlie
But I believe I catch your drift: another contented arrogation, another sneer. The Volokh Conspiracy » 13 States File Suit Against Health Care Reform
The fisherman cast off the rope and set the boat adrift.
Idly she let her eyes drift over his desk.
A mist began to settle in the treetops and drift slowly down into the lush valley where a stream cut a ford in the road.
The lady's clothes seemed to fill the whole carnage, and out of this little padded box there drifted a perfume of orris, an indefinable scent of feminine elegance.
Each time she did, there was a muffled clomp and thin clouds of dust drifted away. Kings of Colorado
I therefore kept the felucca away until I found that she was rather more than holding her own in the race, when I once more lashed the tiller, and, calling to Dominguez to look out for the things that I was about to launch overboard, ran to the gangway, and first successfully set the wash-deck tub afloat, then rolled the breaker of water out through the open _gangway_, and finally sent the mast and sail adrift; after which I returned to the tiller and watched the process of picking up the several articles, as I gradually brought the felucca to her former course, close-hauled upon the starboard tack. A Pirate of the Caribbees
In past storms, it has taken up to three days just to cut through the drifts.
The one time the emphasis had drifted too far into introspection. Times, Sunday Times
A kickball fell from her finespun fingers, bouncing disinterestedly away at an oblique angle, a distant shadow from a 767 drifting across its path. Again
It's 6am and Basra is burning, black clouds of oily smoke drifting over the city to the east, the sound of gunfire rolling across the canal.

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