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[ UK /ɹˈɪft/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɪft/ ]
NOUN
  1. a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
    they hoped to avoid a break in relations
  2. a gap between cloud masses
    the sun shone through a rift in the clouds
  3. a narrow fissure in rock

How To Use rift In A Sentence

  • The following years were characterized by rifts with Russia, in which the Ukraine jealously guarded its own independence against its overbearing neighbour.
  • 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.
  • Slowly it drifts down across the sea-curled weeds, the anchored life of the marine world.
  • It would be perceived by some critics as a tax on prudence and thrift. Times, Sunday Times
  • She leaned out of the window, trying to enjoy the fresher air; a scent of burning rubber drifted in.
  • Government efforts to encourage short-term thrift have had mixed success. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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 “herd. ” The “herd” 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
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