Synonym: cruise, float, glide, meander, ramble, roam, stray, wander. Similar words: rifle, terrific, lift, fifty, fifth, shift, gifted, fifteen. Meaning: [drɪft] 
n. 1. a force that moves something along 2. the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane) 3. a process of linguistic change over a period of time 4. something that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents 5. a general tendency to change (as of opinion) 6. the pervading meaning or tenor 7. a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine. v. 1. be in motion due to some air or water current 2. wander from a direct course or at random 3. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment 4. vary or move from a fixed point or course 5. live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely 6. move in an unhurried fashion 7. cause to be carried by a current 8. drive slowly and far afield for grazing 9. be subject to fluctuation 10. be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current.
n. 1. a force that moves something along 2. the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane) 3. a process of linguistic change over a period of time 4. something that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents 5. a general tendency to change (as of opinion) 6. the pervading meaning or tenor 7. a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine. v. 1. be in motion due to some air or water current 2. wander from a direct course or at random 3. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment 4. vary or move from a fixed point or course 5. live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely 6. move in an unhurried fashion 7. cause to be carried by a current 8. drive slowly and far afield for grazing 9. be subject to fluctuation 10. be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current. 
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31. Festival-goers began to drift off as the evening drew to an end.
32. My German isn't very good, but I got the general drift of what she said.
33. I didn't follow the speech exactly, but I caught the main drift of what was being said.
34. The boats are being left to drift; it's an accident waiting to happen.
35. We had to dig the car out of a snow drift.
36. The downward drift in copper prices looks set to continue.
37. She's married, but she doesn't act as if she is, if you get my drift.
38. He allowed his thoughts to drift back to his conversation with Carrie.
39. As rural factories shed labour, people drift towards the cities.
40. The endless drift from the past to the future.
41. He let his eyes drift up.
42. But mine was the drift dive at Cregan Narrows.
43. It can not be allowed to drift into complacency.
44. Idly, he let his gaze drift across the horizon.
45. Don't allow your attention to drift.
46. The cyclic felt stiff as I corrected for drift.
47. Trails of blue cigarette smoke would drift tentatively upward.
48. Plate tectonics is not the same as continental drift.
49. Houseplants should be allowed to drift into semi-dormancy.
50. The drift apart had been gradual.
51. Casually she let her scarf drift to the ground.
52. Or sometimes, did not drift out?
53. It would also be in line with the gradual drift towards fuel tax harmonisation across the Community.
54. It took just one of the party girls to drift by and break up his life.
55. The district health authority could not be in a better position because it allowed the situation to drift.
56. Each follows the inputs nearer to it and tends to drift away from other nodes.
57. He would drift off to sleep again, only to wake and look at the clock.
57. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and build good sentences.
58. I drift around the ballroom, spearing meatballs and feeling bad.
59. Linked to egalitarianism and associated with many of the same writers and thinkers has been the drift to collectivism.
60. As further proof of this there was a continuous drift of wind-blown spume shooting over us like blobs of candy floss.