The word "drifts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as both a verb and a noun. As a verb, "drift" means to move slowly and without direction; for example, "The boat drifts aimlessly in the open sea." As a noun, "drift" refers to the path that an object takes as it moves through the air or water; for example, "The mountain of snow drifts across the side of the street."
But the weather will dramatically improve in the second half of the week and the mercury is predicted to rise to 28C (82F) in the south on Friday and Saturday as warm air from the continent drifts over Britain.
You need to go beyond the turning point before you turn, so the bus kind of drifts round the corner.
The six-part series, which is expected to echo the dark humour of Davis's previous series, such as BBC3's Nighty Night and Sky Atlantic's Hunderby, takes up the story after eight years of high ratings and awards when the audience drifts away and tensions break out within the production team.
Then the otherwise accurate spinner drifts a touch to the leg and Taylor is able to feather it past the keeper for four more.
The poor park keeper goes on his rounds with his sacks, picking up everything the slobs have dropped all over the lawns and in drifts against the football pitch fence – where the sports people like to drop their cans and bottles, and the parents, watching their kiddies, drop their paper coffee cups, training up the next generation of litterers.
In another film noir, Dark City (1950), she is a nightclub singer again who drifts on the edges of a shadowy criminal world, though her love for gambler Charlton Heston (in his first Hollywood role) is uplifting.
I fleetingly and selfishly wonder if it was for our benefit (my friend and I are the only two non-Bengalis in the restaurant), but then I notice other diners cackling as their attention drifts away from their companions and toward the on-screen antics.By the time we leave, night has fallen, and the street seems livelier and more bustling.
He also suggests a punitive 80% tax rate on incomes above $500,000 or so.Here "Capital" drifts to the left and loses credibility.
In meetings he sometimes reads from notes and "drifts off".
As the military itself comes to acknowledge it was wrong to discriminate against homosexuals, even the emotive force of the charge drifts away.
There is little excuse for drifts of rubbish in a city with massive underemployed manpower, nor for water shortages when the annual rainfall is over three metres.If basic administrative procedures are not improved cholera will remain a persistent problem, no matter how much hand-washing is preached.
