Sentence examples for drift against from inspiring English sources
Grab a coffee and a doughnut from Sluys Bakery and head over to the water to see sail boats drift against the backdrop of the 8,000ft Olympic Mountains.
Accustomed to such climatic exaggeration, I fully expect to be snowed in once an actual blizzard hits, my shovel pristine and unreachable behind the eight-foot drift against my garage door.
Some 150 British soldiers defended the mission station Rorke's Drift against 4,000 Zulus in 1879.
In Figure 3A and B we show scatter plots of the rank drift against two of the questionnaire scores indicating ownership, "located" and "own" respectively (Tables 1 and 2).
We tested the null hypothesis that FST is driven purely by genetic drift against the alternative hypothesis that it is driven by genetic drift and selection.
We performed statistical tests of random null hypotheses of founder effects and genetic drift against the alternative hypothesis of natural selection as explanations for observed differences in phenology.
The poor park keeper goes on his rounds with his sacks, picking up everything the slobs have dropped all over the lawns and in drifts against the football pitch fence – where the sports people like to drop their cans and bottles, and the parents, watching their kiddies, drop their paper coffee cups, training up the next generation of litterers.
"We started at the Police Memorial first, shoveling up two, three feet of ash that had drifted against the wall like snow," Mr. Fleisher said, stopping at the memorial at the corner of Liberty Street and South End Avenue, where a wall is engraved with the names of hundreds of officers who died in the line of duty in years past.
Forestieri rose above the defenders to head back across goal but the ball drifted against the upright and was cleared.
The system had disorganized convection– thunderstorms– and moved generally southwestward after drifting against the Gulf Stream.
In the Oscar-nominated movie Gravity, Dr. Ryan Stone Sandra Bullockk) floats, alone, drifting, against the vast backdrop of space.
