Sentence examples for massive drift from inspiring English sources

That, over centuries, England witnessed a massive drift from country to town within national borders - the historical bedrock of Crace's fable - did nothing to make the process any less traumatic.

Above the shops bursting with Bogner jackets and tasty baked treats, massive snow drifts are heaped like Nigella's leftover mash, cascading over the eaves of the resort's flat roofs.

This binary system, called Cygnus X-1, appears to be part of an association of massive stars drifting through the Milky Way at about the same pace, Mirabel says.

Car handling gives you loads of feel, and there is a sense of realism in the handling, yet you would still describe it as arcade-style: braking into corners without lifting the throttle triggers massive (and unrealistic) drifts.

As the massive ash cloud drifted south, emergency workers handed out protective masks in a wide area including parts of Chile and Argentina.

They announced it by rolling a video showing their massive new tablet drifting through space like a Star Destroyer (see above).

Bulls are fiercely territorial, so we don't dally when Dad's massive bonce begins to drift in our direction.

Massive gene loss due to drift is universal in obligate endosymbionts, and can highlight processes that are not necessary in the host environment (e.g., motility).

While the black soldiers engaged in a firefight, part of the Indian Home Guard lost its way in the massive plume of smoke and drifted into the line of fire.

Many suspects have been implicated in the so-called P-T extinction: a comet or meteorite hitting the planet, massive environmental change due to continental drift, or huge volcanic explosions.

The massive host rock formation around the emplacement drift is the most important barrier against radionuclide release into the biosphere.