Sentence examples for drifting rapidly from inspiring English sources

As we gazed at it, somebody hissed "Here they come!" and the swishing got louder and then out of the mist burst a cloud, a swirling, eddying cloud drifting rapidly towards us, and the sound became a spectacle – one of the great wildlife spectacles of Britain.

Drifting rapidly due south towards Kvitøya, they hurriedly built a winter "home" on the floe against the increasing cold, with walls made of water-reinforced snow to Strindberg's design (see plan, below, left).

Thereafter, the SWs drifted rapidly along the ridge, predominantly through the thin regions, until eventually reaching the boundary of the model.

To explain this difference, we have to assume that due to differential selection under cultivation these two genepools drifted rapidly apart.

Thus, organelle genomes become purified by intra-organismic genetic drift, rapidly segregate to homoplasmy, and therefore malfunctioning genotypes can be eliminated effectively by selection (12, 38, 39; Box 1).

Although 3'UTR sequences tend to drift more rapidly during evolution [27], the putative binding sites for miR-29b in PGRN 3'UTRs are also highly conserved in mammals, with only one nucleotide difference between humans and rodents (Fig. 1D), suggesting an evolutionarily conserved miRNA mRNA interaction with potentially important regulatory functions.

But the problem is that the two-state solution that he has advocated and argued for for so long is rapidly drifting away".

There was a flicker of movement at a window, and Bridget turned in a full circle, taking in the dense and quiet woods, the pine branches dripping, the surprisingly rapidly drifting clouds.

Rapidly drifting core spots moving westwards towards South America have been ascribed by Bloxham and Gubbins (1985) to explain the observed high SV in Southern Africa.

He was stranded about one-quarter mile off shore, and was rapidly drifting to sea.

The couple, happy in poverty, are now rapidly drifting on the shoals of matrimonial disaster, but the child saves them.