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Meanings of drift in English
Synonyms
Examples for "range"
Examples for "range"
1
The market has been range-bound since late last week over political worries.
2
Sometimes, a range of products comes along at exactly the right time.
3
Yet US democracy is within Mr Trump's striking range at all times.
4
This is the result of a range of factors, including climate change.
5
They range from utility, oil and manufacturing companies to independent power producers.
1
The election result has cast doubt on popular support for that project.
2
Events surrounding CervicalCheck continue to cast a shadow over the health service.
3
Animal prints: we think they're best left to cast members of Eastenders.
4
The withdrawal agreement must give legal effect to that 'cast iron' guarantee.
5
Clive Fugill said Covid-19 cast doubt on whether that legacy could continue.
1
A free inflight Wi-Fi service is set to roll out this year.
2
He may, indeed, require divine help to roll aside this particular stone.
3
He thought the state was going to roll over on this case.
4
However, the ministry said those roll numbers were what it would expect.
5
Ms Bennett said the shared equity scheme should roll out next year.
1
Workers no longer tramp or cycle home but drive warm, smart cars.
2
Presently the heavy tramp of the patrol was heard in the street.
3
The General rose, and once more his military tramp shook the gallery.
4
At this instant the tramp of horses was heard in the courtyard.
5
He heard the tramp of a million feet in the great cities.
1
Go out on the seas; climb the mountains; wander through the valleys.
2
Left to wander its own way, it tends to lead into silliness.
3
Small animals wander around the camp, while larger ones can be heard.
4
He merely meant to wander the halls and perhaps clear his mind.
5
He had no reason to wander; perhaps that was the reason why.
1
The swan was injured following the recent oil spillage in Bray Harbour.
2
The question is, where would the swan go on the knight's journey?'
3
The swan feathers were still in her box; I had recently looked.
4
His prize was just dancing on the water, light as a swan.
5
The swan ship that delivered Slayer should serve my needs well enough.
1
Dublin Corporation's new regulations to control stray horses came into effect yesterday.
2
He included the lines, Among your earthiest words the angels stray .
3
He was offering to forget the stray, let him come or go.
4
Record how long the chant was able to fend off stray thoughts.
5
There are hundreds of stray cats among the holy sites in Jerusalem.
1
Sable used to roam the Limpopo province in large numbers, years ago.
2
That is easy to understand - learning to roam productively takes time.
3
It's a great fear removed they no longer roam outside our gates.
4
Certainly Selena didn't roam the house taking inventory of her various knickknacks.
5
Ptolemy liked to stare out there and let his thoughts roam free.
1
Medical error is common and junior doctors are more vulnerable to err.
2
To err is not only human - animals can also make mistakes.
3
At this moment, we need to err on the side of caution.
4
These days, the company chooses to err on the side of caution.
5
Again, Sir, I may err; but it will be with the Fathers.
1
I have a vagabond streak in my blood and it's in evidence.
2
Beverly laughed with keen enjoyment over the discomfiture of the shame-faced vagabond.
3
He stuck his hands in his pockets, and felt vagabond-like and reckless.
4
You indulge in a gesture of annoyance, and call me a vagabond.
5
Every kind of restraint was naturally intolerable to such a vagabond nature.
1
Art3mis: As you may recall, I tend to ramble in real time.
2
Otherwise the picture covers familiar ground and tends to ramble somewhat repetitively.
3
Finding little else of interest in the paper, I continued my ramble.
4
We had a delightful ramble through the valley, and over the hills.
5
It is my holiday time, and I ramble on through the summer.
1
Winning back to paths of virtue all who now in error rove.
2
He would rove the fields while the rest were working in them.
3
In Westphalia the Hessians and Swedes rove about, rendering the roads unsafe.
4
You rove where you will, deferring to no authority but your own.
5
We'll rove together, for we are of them that have no homes.
Usage of drift in English
1
However, industry sources said that the deadline may drift into early July.
2
Get-togethers between friends often naturally drift toward other activities as interests change.
3
The intercontinental drift of consumer culture is far from a simple back-and-forth.
4
People are exposed through spray drift, residues on food and water contamination.
5
Type B change only by the more gradual process of antigenic drift.
6
The ship did not just drift off course, it started to sink.
7
Nor did he mention the drift net he had seen that morning.
8
The Government outlawed salmon drift net fishing on the Shannon in 2007.
9
Even our hut was but a smaller drift in the general picture.
10
Any unevenness in the acceleration and compression of the air produces drift.
11
And in the drift of his silence the vision capriciously failed him.
12
The same may be said of the drift of population in America.
13
Mr Reynolds misses the vital point - that drift netting is indiscriminate.
14
Grave questions arise in connection with immigration, health, and the cityward drift.
15
The drift stuff was upwards of thirteen feet high in the gum-trees.
16
The drift of events placed the protesting Republicans in an embarrassing situation.
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