Sentence examples for drifting land from inspiring English sources

In New York, ethnic groups move like tectonic plates, drifting land masses, sometimes colliding at their edges with unhappy consequences, sometimes slipping past one another with relative ease.

They drifted, landed heavily and became stranded on rocks at Hanover Cove near St Agnes.

Thousands of farmers abandoned their lands to the drifting soil and moved west to British Columbia, northwest into Alberta's Peace River region, or into the cities.

But each time the lines separated again, leaving the rig in danger of drifting toward land.

But each time the lines separated again, leaving the rig, 266 feet in diameter, in danger of drifting toward land.

The Viking Sky lost power on Saturday and sent out a distress signal after it began drifting towards land.

Flora remained a hurricane while drifting over land due to abundant moisture and a favorable upper level environment.

MOUNTAIN: "hawk's land," "eagle or shrill crier hall," "lynx's sea," "earth drift," "ridge land".

Meanwhile, the ageing "Occupant" of an uncontrollably drifting, never-landing airship seems to represent Nikita Khrushchev.

My mind started to drift during "Land of the Lost," when I should have been chuckling at its inanity, as Dr. Marshall and Will trip out on Chaka's inter-dimensional jungle acid while Holly uncovers a sinister Sleestak plot.

As he tried to do so, the wind fell away, leaving Temeraire becalmed and caught in a current which caused her to drift towards land.