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The phrase "drift through life" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who has been living without purpose or direction, or to describe someone who is just going through the motions of life without any kind of meaningful engagement in what they are doing. For example, "Henry had been drifting through life, not really interested in anything or making any kind of effort to pursue his goals."
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'Most of us can easily drift through life without taking a step back, or asking ourselves some of the bigger moral questions,' says Dr Stephen Law, editor of Think and author of The Philosophy Files.
It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
– yet simultaneously cannot accept that they merely drift through life in an affectless trance.
Later we learn of the Communist Party's resistance to including "Negroes," dismissed as being "content to drift through life".
Give in too easily, and you drift through life; struggle too much, and you suffer for it.
If you look at human history, the idea that you would drift through life, going from new relation to new relation, that's very new.
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A mopey, drug-addled adulterer who drifts through life seeking meaning doesn't leave that legacy.
Its narrator, Rosemary Cooke, is an introverted college student drifting through life.
For the most part, Costello seems to be drifting through life — set adrift by his wife's death.
Hans Kristian Rausing had drifted through life in the shadow of his father, Hans Rausing, and had travelled to India to "find himself".
But the story is perhaps their most conservative: a small-town physician (Claybourne Elder) drifts through life, only to get caught in the corrupting glare of the big city.
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