Sentence examples for drift like from inspiring English sources

Broad reach beyond Workday thoughts that drift Like flotsam in the mind.

I experience a melancholy pause when meaning is lost, when words drift like runaways far from home.

But all Nguyen's fiction is pervaded by a shared intensity of vision, by stinging perceptions that drift like windblown ashes.

His best along these lines is "The Change, My Girl," a slumbering ballad with a melody and chord progression that drift like cloud formations.

Even when words' meanings start out clear, they drift like the blob in a lava lamp, inevitably distorted by the vagaries of human cognition and cultural evolution.

Most of each picture is raw, untouched canvas on which the words and clouds drift like flotsam from a ship gone down.

Here, the combined effect of the ambient humidity and temperature variations on the CRGS responses to different concentrations of a contaminant is experimentally investigated, and a systematic technique for the elimination of these drift-like terms is presented.

The paper presents a new method of elimination of influence of drift-like errors in so called intelligent cyclic A/D converters, in particular, errors caused by drifts (droops) of voltage at the output of sample-and-hold blocks.

Such methods have been used previously to model the change in distribution of cultural traits such as first names and pottery designs over time in response to drift-like random copying and frequency-dependent cultural transmission biases [30], [31].

The qualitatively differing substances comprised different compound classes such as alkanes, alkenes, methyl-branched alkenes as well as mono-, di- and trimethyl-branched alkanes of varying chain length (Fig. 4), as would be expected if supercolonies diverge in a drift-like process of neutral evolution.

This implies that the apparent resistance to innovation and directional change in earlier populations may in turn be a reflection of smaller effective population sizes, which would intensify the effects of drift-like processes in eliminating novel and rare cultural variants, even if they had adaptive value [23] [25].