Sentence examples for they were drifting from inspiring English sources

They were drifting away and, in a few cases, drifting off.

Unfortunately, they were not able to reach a position where the drift of the trans-Arctic ice-stream was in their favour (they were drifting around the north pole rather than towards it).

What I remember most is the sight of them making their way through the protesters to a waiting car, as if they were drifting on a tide of grief.

"They were drifting away from the U.S.'s line, and the U.S. was becoming isolated," said Chung In Moon, a foreign affairs professor at Yonsei University here and an adviser to President Roh Moo Hyun.

Two of the surfers there that afternoon had boards they had dragged thousands of miles — across oceans, through Asian cities and jungles — destroyed, snapped in half by the waves, but the Swiss observers just splashed blithely back toward the channel whenever we warned them they were drifting too close.

"At the beginning there was no anchor and they were drifting out to sea and not knowing where they'd end up.

Some of the roads I took I had to turn back because they were drifted over.

They're drifting into the past.

Handwriting; paper; letters: they are drifting from our lives.

Instead of lining up behind Clinton, they're drifting away.

Americans are drifting out of the grip of institutionalized religion, just as they are drifting from institutional authority in general.