Sentence examples for drifts in front of from inspiring English sources
To do that, researchers monitor the flutterings of light from distant stars as Triton drifts in front of them, events called occultations.
Aberdeen's Niall McGinn gets the better of Joe Chalmers and crosses for Adam Rooney who drifts in front of the Well defence but heads onto the roof of the net.
Yankees catcher Jorge Posada looked quickly at third, and Hairston drifted in front of the plate.
The puck drifted in front of the crease and Shawn Matthias couldn't clear it for Florida.
It looked for tiny dips in brightness caused when planets drift in front of their parent star.
As Lampard collected Ashley Cole's throw-in on the left, Ballack drifted in front of his marker at the near post to turn in the cross.
But Varitek drifted in front of the plate to field the throw from J. D. Drew, and Giambi slid nimbly around the tag to score.
"Our idea," said Speirs, "was to have a building that, by full moon, is lit pristinely with white light, but with a textural quality evocative of clouds slowly drifting in front of a full white moon.
The star KIC 8462852 exploded into the public consciousness in October when it was suggested that mysterious signals could be explained by a gigantic artificial structure drifting in front of the star and blocking some of its light.
"Our idea," said Speirs, "was to have a building that, by full moon, is lit pristinely with white light, but with a textural quality evocative of clouds slowly drifting in front of a full white moon.
