"drift about" is a grammatically correct phrase that is commonly used in written English.
It means to wander or move aimlessly without a specific direction or purpose. Example: "As the boat sailed along the calm waters, we watched the seagulls drift about in the sky."
You drift about, looking this way and that, waiting for something to catch your eye.
The first section takes place on a cruise ship: passengers drift about, stateless, alienated.
Arriving in an expensively priced cab - there are no buses plying the route - I watch as they drift about in the clearing, an alien tribe.
For a date – a date – they're both flown to South Africa; Sam for a safari and Lisa to drift about in a hot air balloon.
Shallow, rootless hot spots that drift about could create the fuzzy pattern, say Wessel and Kroenke.
This process – wherein chunks of the crust and the upper mantle drift about, crashing into, grinding up against, moving away from or diving under each other – means that we get massive mountains ranges, ocean basins, erupting volcanoes, and colossal earthquakes.
Most drifted about or moved slowly, often gently colliding.
Since then the ice floe holding both cameras has drifted about 375 miles south.
The curves for Europe and North America, for example, are reconciled by the assumption that the latter has drifted about 30° westward relative to Europe since the Triassic Period.
A few weeks earlier, Make Music New York presented Iannis Xenakis's percussion sextet "Persephassa" on and around Central Park Lake, with several hundred listeners drifting about in rowboats.
It's her drifting about in a nimbus of white chiffon for the "Wuthering Heights" video, hair crimped to kingdom-come, arms tremblante, lots of backlighting, like a 1970s album cover come to life.
