Sentence examples for sideways drift from inspiring English sources

This sideways drift produces a flow of images of the ground across the insect's eyes, and the insect adjusts its power output to maintain its general upwind movement.

She has published fifteen novels now, each charting the stealthy sideways drift of our affections — the mission creep of the human heart.

In a more cleareyed mode, he writes: "She gave the crowds little but a smile and the sidelong glance she was starting to perfect — a look that spoke a thousand words, accompanied by a little sideways drift of the jaw, with the gaze dropping off to the side and her eyelids falling to half-mast.

Meanwhile, overseas markets reflected the sideways drift among U.S. stocks.

To stop that kind of sideways drift, the report rightly recommends supporting the draft optional protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and pornography portraying minors, which would be attached to the International Convention on the Rights of the Child.

For the majority, the prospect of 10 years of sideways economic drift is not really so terrible, as long as they can earn money and keep a roof over their heads.

But the owner of a kicker can come out ahead if rates go sideways or drift up just a bit.

Embers rocketed across the hearth; ashes blew sideways and drifted into the room.

"So you may have a situation where instead of stocks falling, maybe they drift sideways.

But just when investors and economists smelled a change, the People's Bank of China stepped back and let the renminbi drift sideways for a week.

"It's perfectly O.K. to drift sideways down the hill because people will feel the improved control they have on a flat ski," Mr. Nevin said.