As the fire starts to dim, people drift off from the beach to their beds.
At a meeting to designate a successor to a retiring officer, for example, he made sure the talk did not drift off from the core topic of candidates' leadership skills.
They drifted off from the kitchen klatch; I'd see one of The Boyfriends looking at the night sky, also, or sitting away from the others, reading.
For example, when it's more than I'm comfortable with in a particular moment, I might drift off from the conversation I'm in with someone.
And, the longer the kids are in the adoptive family, the farther away they drift off from their roots, from their culture, their class, their language: they can't come back, even it were legally possible.
That makes this class sensitive to weak signal conditions and noise, thus detected layer boundaries can easily drift off from the real ones.
Likewise, there are doubts about the time when the exotic blocks of the Calabro-Peloritan massif drifted off from Sardinia to their present-day positions, although it is generally accepted that it occurred during the formation of the Tyrrhenian Sea [ 10, 17].
Markov boundary model and dynamic programming have been used to track the columnwise edge points in [ 18– 20], however, the interface between the choroid and sclera is very weak and even invisible in some locations and hence the delineated boundary can easily drift off from the real one.
If he drifts off from these tips in a major way, he's probably rather rude, and may not be the best choice.
