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Meanings of drifting in English
Synonyms
Examples for "floating"
Examples for "floating"
1
He said the Tories' hardline stance on Europe would alienate floating voters.
2
There is a great deal of information floating around regarding Flight KGL9268.
3
The cash rate normally influences the level of floating home loan rates.
4
Industry players have resisted changes of any kind, particularly the floating NAVY.
5
Animals exposed to environmental stress often have lots of them floating around.
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
My quest was not aimless and fortuitous; it had a definite method.
2
Criminal justice alone is expected to roll along, aimless and largely directionless.
3
The two are intimately related: passionless politics dribble away into aimless drift.
4
We putter around in an aimless sort of way and get nowhere.
5
It's a tedious mission that characterizes the aimless nature of Daybreak's storytelling.
1
The song which the vagrant was singing was the simplest of ballads.
2
A vagrant may have come across it, taken it to the church.'
3
I'd have thought you'd be more involved investigating all these vagrant murders.
4
Only you could possibly think that I would support your vagrant friends.'
5
Far more likely is it to confirm them in their vagrant propensities.
Usage of drifting in English
1
A couple years ago, though, I started drifting toward a more-sauce-less-pasta approach.
2
Something strange happened, and the group shifted direction, drifting north and west.
3
The migrants were drifting on an inflatable raft in the Mediterranean sea.
4
While Labour's vote collapsed, the Conservative vote has been gently drifting downwards.
5
He could hear his mother's words drifting out of the living room.
6
She lost herself in the pattern, drifting on a sea of regularity.
7
Somebody had tied them together and sent them drifting over the sea.
8
The drifting period was over; the matter had to be settled now.
9
It was over southern Minnesota today, drifting east toward the Wisconsin Dells.
10
The thin vegetation stands half buried in sand, as in drifting snow.
11
The wind swept the drifting snow in dense clouds over their heads.
12
I froze when I heard a voice drifting over from Bill's house.
13
He said something, likely a complaint, but she was already drifting off.
14
Each cloud drifting overhead had blown across those skies the year before.
15
And always in the background of his mind went that drifting herd.
16
It suits his state of mind as he continues drifting through grief.
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Translations for drifting
Spanish
Catalan
Drifting through the time
Drifting across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common
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