drift

Is he the type of character who would ever join the group permanently, or is he more of a drift-in, drift-out kind of guy?

After years of strategic drift, the U.S. military may finally have a path to maintain its edge over countries like China.

Things can drift over time and you can find yourself very far away from shore when you thought you were quite close to the beach.

The mother continues to row frantically, but the boat begins to drift slowly downstream.

Everyone will laugh, the word “nerd” will be used affectionately, and the conversation will drift on.

They stopped, leaning over a jagged fence made of sea-drift, to ask for water.

Quite a number of sandeaters, as time passed, seemed to drift in and out of the back room.

For all that Marius had no Italian he understood the drift of the words, assisted as they were by the man's expressive gesture.

And they will jump into the air from the verge of high banks, and land on the drift at the bottom with perfect balance.

Their effect is, however, probably small as compared with that massive drift which we have now to note.