Sentence examples for drift back and forth from inspiring English sources

The noise makes him sound like the venue's other, uninvited guests: the mosquitoes that drift back and forth across the terrace, discreetly snacking on its clientele.

But many communities, like the Misseriya nomads, drift back and forth across that line to graze their animals, and the Misseriya are now refusing to be categorized as northern or southern.

t may say something about the politics of "tending to the base" that Chuck Hagel appears today to be the longest of long shots, for he's a politician with attributes that are supposedly sought by the people who package candidates and by the casual, least opinionated voters for whom they package them — those who drift back and forth between parties, actually deciding elections.

The power of handwritten letters is amazing (and I owe thanks to Gabriella and Béla Bollabas of Cambridge for their careful translation of the Hungarian sections – the letters drift back and forth between English and Hungarian, according to the subjects being discussed).

The polls are bound to drift back and forth in the next two weeks, but remember that the Obama campaign is stronger in the battleground states than it is nationally.

If an observer fixates on the drifting columns (thereby placing the image of the drifting columns in the fovea), the columns are easily separated from the background and appear to drift back and forth horizontally.

Then he moved away from Ingres's orbit and into Delacroix's, drifting back and forth.

He drifts back and forth between wavering Eva and the slightly too motivated but very desirable Pamela.

I'm not going to do it.' " Utah Coach Jerry Sloan has drifted back and forth on the issue.

For an hour, his eyes drifted back and forth between his fragile daughter and the blinking monitor.

As for the song, a tongue-in-cheek critique of relocated urbanites, Ms. Bonham herself drifts back and forth between Woodstock and the Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn.