Sentence examples for drifting about from inspiring English sources

A few weeks earlier, Make Music New York presented Iannis Xenakis's percussion sextet "Persephassa" on and around Central Park Lake, with several hundred listeners drifting about in rowboats.

"You can spend everything you want on housing, but if people don't have jobs and a sense of responsibility for the community, then they're left drifting about".

It's her drifting about in a nimbus of white chiffon for the "Wuthering Heights" video, hair crimped to kingdom-come, arms tremblante, lots of backlighting, like a 1970s album cover come to life.

If words were balloons, these words were floating up to bounce against the ceiling of the windowless fluorescent-lit lecture hall, colliding with one another and drifting about, stupidly.

Still other stories have Cassidy (either alone or with Sundance) returning to the United States, drifting about from Mexico to Alaska, and dying in obscurity in 1937 in the Northwest or in Nevada (possibly Spokane, Wash., or Johnny, Nev.).

There are now urban legends about German students - Grey Panthers, they are called - who go directly from school to pension: at the Free University, one "student" is still drifting about after 72 semesters.

Most drifted about or moved slowly, often gently colliding.

You drift about, looking this way and that, waiting for something to catch your eye.

Since then the ice floe holding both cameras has drifted about 375 miles south.

The first section takes place on a cruise ship: passengers drift about, stateless, alienated.

The curves for Europe and North America, for example, are reconciled by the assumption that the latter has drifted about 30° westward relative to Europe since the Triassic Period.