How To Use Drifter In A Sentence

  • The world is full of carefree, pleasure-seeking drifters.
  • He's just a drifter he can't settle down anywhere.
  • There'd been an old drifter who'd stopped by for lodgings with his ragged hat and scarf, everything he owned in a beat-up pack.
  • Previous entry: Man found with Smart known as drifter ‘Mickey Mouse Peace Plan’ urged
  • A succession of European and American drifters fetched up on the shores, followed in the 1810s and 1820s by forceful Congregational missionaries from New England.
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  • She was a high-bowed, thirty-seven-foot drifter with tabernacled mainmast and a mizzen astern. THE MAIN CAGES
  • As the police affidavit at their bond hearing made clear, the men seem to have been drifters, moving frequently from town to town.
  • It's difficult for me to believe a transient, a drifter comes in off the street - the alarm doesn't go off, the dog doesn't bark, nobody screams, she goes back to get her shoes, leaves without a trace.
  • The bar suricata old reconsideration logistic sawmill gelatin, brevoortia, and drifter, and economically premeditated ones latinate crab and impeccably embryotic amblyopic unprovoking dope. POWET.TV
  • When I moved to New York, I had the idea it would be a non-stop playground, a party with fellow dreamers and drifters that lasted all night, every night.
  • Conor O'Neill is your typical underachiever, a good-looking, sulky drifter who's a ticket scalper and a gambler on the wrong side of the dice.
  • And it wasn't some nice, looping, underarm throw that would have guaranteed the bottle would land safely in Drifter's hands, either.
  • The gifted drifter swiftly shifted to the left lift.
  • The third person in this case -- and that is Amanda Knox we ` re looking at -- The third man in this case, who is considered or has been described as a drifter, has already been convicted. CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2008
  • U-boats were attacked by aircraft, airships, Q-ships, mines, drifters, Naval vessels (including submarines) and merchant ships.
  • In 1994, like so many other drifters before him, he settled in the San Fernando Valley, California, with his Chicago-born wife, Tania, and their daughter, Lily.
  • Schmiedeler, O.S.B., Director of the Catholic Rural Life Bureau of the N.C.W.C., this increased tenantry brings with it physical “erosion” of the farms, which are not cared for by those who do not own them; and social “erosion,” in the shape of irresponsible drifters; “vanishing liberty, since renters, like wage-earners, are not the free people that owners are.” Farm Ownership Linked With Trades Unions
  • Even that relentless esthete Edward Weston, a man accustomed to making things look the way he thought they should look, tips his hat to the desert's brutal power with his 1937 portrait of a dead drifter that he literally stumbled on while walking in the desert near San Diego. Shooting The West
  • With betting banished from Texas, anybody wanting to earn a living from racing headed to New Mexico, where the tracks attracted a colourful assortment of chancers, drifters and apprentice horsemen.
  • I have no respect for teachers, lecturers or peripatetic drifters.
  • He's just a drifter he can't settle down anywhere.
  • In 1959, two grammar school boys take different paths: one achieves academic success, the other becomes a drifter working in a holiday camp and on fairgrounds, before deciding that his destiny lies in rock 'n' roll.
  • He also appeared in numerous Clint Eastwood flicks, including High Plains Drifter, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, and Every Which Way But Loose.
  • Scattered across the world, Strider Kinfolk are typically travelers themselves — Bedouin nomads, circus troupes, Gypsies, truckers or just plain drifters.
  • In the beginning was a 1929 film about herring drifters directed by John Grierson, who coined the noun "documentary" to describe films that dealt in "the creative treatment of actuality". A British fleet with no aircraft carrier. Unthinkable!
  • The theory that this drifter that's living in his car sneaks in - and this garage door theory, I think is a bunch of bunk.
  • Permanent Vacation and the movies that follow it are unmoored drifter's stories, and, to borrow from Down by Law, they simply realize that the slums can be pretty ‘sad and beautiful’ when you're just passing through.
  • There's all sorts of strange drifters in there with holed t-shirts and long grey hair.
  • I've been thinking about expanding my targets to include derelicts, stewbums, winos, drifters, transients and ne'er-do-wells.
  • Babs, a larky drifter, hopes to satisfy her spiritual and sexual hunger by returning to her roots.
  • Yet its central theme was understandable to all but the most slack of thirty-something drifters.
  • The author never indicates how this drifter from a vagabond existence came to live in a modest upper middleclass neighborhood with no steady income (dollhouses?). Reader reviews of The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.
  • Scarseth, described as a drifter, received a warning for skateboarding illegally. CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2004
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  • University of Heidelberg astronomer Joachim Wambsganss, who was not involved in the research, said more studies will be needed to confirm that the new planets are indeed drifters.
  • With betting banished from Texas, anybody wanting to earn a living from racing headed to New Mexico, where the tracks attracted a colourful assortment of chancers, drifters and apprentice horsemen.
  • The mother becomes a drifter, finally offering her life in a revolutionary cataclysm that takes place in a banana republic wholly given over to violence and nihilism.
  • Instead, it became a magnet for mainly white drifters and broken families.
  • The weather was cooperating, the wind soft, probably not more than eight knots, the mainsail eased, the drifter full and drawing well. CORMORANT
  • He and his colleagues, he writes, were ‘permanent rangers on a temporary river,’ stuck on land wanted by nobody but the gun-toting drifters and weekend drunkards who squatted in the forest.
  • Instead of a drifter causing a drift and then countering to straighten out, he will instead over-counter so his car goes into another drift.
  • He also argued that some of the wards contained above-average proportions of drifters, who would not turn out on election day anyway.
  • A so-called drifter shows off his precision with a knife and cucumber. CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2007
  • But I suppose there's no denying that we learn from our mistakes, just as we learn from toothless, disease-ridden drifters.
  • Her songs are peopled with drifters, ramblers, old lovers.
  • Salvation seems to arrive in the form of a drifter that Tim meets at the bar, a fellow who helps him cover up the killing.
  • These are not drifters or unemployed loners tempted into a life of terrorism by the promise of money or glory; rather, most of them had good jobs.
  • Property owners tend to view drifters with suspicion, and distrust their lack of stability.
  • These young drifters will wander in a spiritual wilderness for six, eight, ten, or twelve years and return to participate in faith life when they get married or have a child.
  • Elmer Lee Nance, a 63-year-old drifter, was arrested last fall in connection with the murder.
  • His victims are invisible, unlikely to be missed: prostitutes, drifters, bottom-feeders.
  • Many thousands arrived on the Norfolk coast and on light-vessels and drifters offshore.
  • Other chapters in this informative book cover the drift-net; trawling in the west coast of Scotland lochs; the Scottish east coast fishers in the days of sail; steam drifters and more recent fishing methods.
  • I heard that she took a job as night security somewhere, until she busted a drifter that wandered into her area.
  • 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.
  • In short, we had to pander to the general belief that drifters were losers who were ashamed of their personal histories.
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • A drifter gets a job at a roadside diner, and soon embarks on an affair with the owner's wife. The Sun
  • He was rescued in turn by a trawler, a drifter and a British destroyer - twice employing his pigeons.
  • Like many other impecunious Caribbean drifters at the time, Dampier slipped into a life of freebooting and buccaneering, hopping from ship to ship, raiding Spanish vessels and towns.
  • A depressed drifter is even unhappier when it is a sunny day and everyone is having fun. Archive 2007-10-01
  • First Captain Miocene hires a drifter named Pamir - the umpteenth identity of a former captain that has been hiding for centuries - to find the killer. REVIEW: Down These Dark Spaceways edited by Mike Resnick
  • The hippie characters' conception of freedom leads to their shocking appearance and to their choice to be drifters, and hence strangers.
  • Some have middle-class backgrounds while others are drifters from broken homes.
  • The opposite of a cosmopolitan has always seemed to me a kind of aphonic drifter. News.newamericamedia.org
  • Fishermen of Cape Clear, Long Island and Roaringwater Bay, used the mackerel drifters and the Heir Island fishermen worked their pots over hundreds of miles along the Cork coast in lobster boats.
  • A drifter gets a job at a roadside diner, and soon embarks on an affair with the owner's wife. The Sun
  • (and a title echo) with the tale of a small-town girl falling in love with a drifter who has a hairy past. Undefined
  • [Highway Drifter] for Brujah and Nosferatu is rather good, I wouldn't advise it for Gangrel though since the cost in Humanity may lead to frenzying more often. IGN Complete
  • A fire, probably started in the Casino to help keep the drifters warm, got out of hand.
  • The reviews hit the nail on the head ... we can't care because Lady Christina is fluffy and the Doctor is an aimless drifter. More Doctor Who Updating...for the Easter Special
  • It is basically what we call a drifter slope mine. CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2006
  • Shane Bradley is a 28-year-old writer, gambler and soul-searching drifter.
  • The first brakemen hired by the new company were drifters (a.k.a. boomers) off the railroads.
  • Reading Ray's letters calls to mind such ego-deformed drifters as Don DeLillo's Lee Harvey Oswald, in Libra, and Norman Mailer's Gary Gilmore, in The Executioner's Song. Lawyers and Lizard-Heads
  • Some are ragged drifters, but most disturbing is the sight of entire families - a haggard and exhausted father and mother, accompanied by a bevy of grimy children - sprawled around a campfire of twigs.

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