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US
/ˈdɹɪftɪŋ/
]
[ UK /dɹˈɪftɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /dɹˈɪftɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
vagrant hippies of the sixties
the floating population
a drifting double-dealer
NOUN
- aimless wandering from place to place
How To Use drifting In A Sentence
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- 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
- 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
- More and more men were transformed by the mutating power of the great clouds of Chaos magic drifting from the poles.
- The breeze drifting through my window is warm, and somewhere I hear a bird crying over the water.
- He was severely concussed and drifting in and out of consciousness.
- The firewood, soaked in oil, blazed up immediately, and his boat became a beacon of flame, drifting downstream towards Lake Tallian.
- Domestic policy is drifting leftward, but there are sharp limits on how far it will go.