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drifting

adjective as in afloat

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adjective as in carried

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adjective as in idling

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adjective as in nomadic

adjective as in wandering

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adverb as in adrift

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noun as in boating

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Example Sentences

Strong currents and winds, however, mean any debris could be drifting up to 31 miles a day eastward, away from the impact zone.

It may also have left them somewhat untethered, drifting in between their own lives and the eternal mysteries.

In this valley so far away from Syria, questions loom like mist drifting off the Caucasus.

Tokyo Bay is “a black expanse where gulls wheeled above drifting shoals of white Styrofoam.”

The life of the club owner was something Leonard left behind, the noise and violence drifting into lore.

Something came up between me and Lyn—and I drifted, and kept drifting.

To-morrow—a crippled veteran, and after that a pensioner drifting fast into a garrulous dotage.

As there was not now a breath of wind, we were entirely at the mercy of the stream, and began drifting back.

A sheet of rain came drifting across the lake toward the hillock on which the house stood.

We were now drifting to the South by East through a wide channel, sounding in between fifty and sixty fathoms, rocky bottom.

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On this page you'll find 472 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to drifting, such as: adrift.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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