Sentence examples for drifting from inspiring English sources

I had hoped she was humouring Hastings when he suggested it, rather than actually desiring to go aboard a drifting hotel.

The Scot took time to embrace the qualities of his Japanese playmaker but this was one of Kagawa's better games this season – drifting inside dangerously for the first two-thirds of the game, then dominating when he was moved centrally midway through the second half.

Thousands more are believed to be drifting in small boats, without fuel or supplies.

Perhaps it is possible to block the supply lines to Messi: Tevez could play to the left and look to pin back Dani Alves with Vidal in support and Marchisio could keep tight on Ivan Rakitic with Pogba drifting over to cover, but that still leaves the other side of the pitch.

It was as if hip-hop had agreed that jewellery, girls and cars were safe to rap about: the profitable gun-free future became mapped out as one long P Diddy nightmare of fur coats and samples from Police tracks, drifting into the horizon like the video of I'll Be Missing You.

He tries to imagine his remains – or, as Beckett puts it, "to conceive of his exuviae" – "as preserved in an urn or other receptacle in some kind person's sanctum or as drifting about like a cloud of randy pollen, but somehow he could not quite bring it off, this simple little flight".

The game was drifting as half-time approached, and perhaps Eric Lichaj lost concentration for a second.

It's magical and remote, mist drifting over the jutting limestone karsts, the lake banked by thick jungle.

Britain is drifting to the exit door of the European Union".

Apparently the mail was last seen drifting around the outskirts of Los Angeles.

40 min: The ear-splitting whistles drifting around the gound indicate that Poland can't get a sniff of the ball now.