Sentence examples for were drifting off from inspiring English sources

A lot were drifting off but we didn't understand why.

It was almost as if we were drifting off ourselves!

We quickly took the staysail down to pass to windward, the safer side in case small bits were drifting off to leeward.

It hit as we were drifting off to sleep.

The experimenters then woke the players up repeatedly during the first hour of sleep on the following nights, during a phase of light sleep called Stage 1. Nine of 12 novices reported seeing Tetris pieces spinning and falling--just as they do in the game--as they were drifting off.

The game was drifting off to sleep.

"It might have been because the teacher was drifting off a little bit, too," he said.

As I was drifting off, I heard the old man saying, "It's Fletcher, all right.

Since four, people had been drifting off to the Christmas party.

I tend to hear them as I am drifting off to sleep.

Where was I? How long had I been drifting off course?