Example Sentences

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Vashti Bunyan Coldest Night of the Year Drifty, slow and wintry, but a little bit saucy as well.

From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2018

"The Thirteen Drifty Days," folk called this storm, and by that name it has gone down to history.

From Stories of the Border Marches by Lang, Jeanie

And as for storms and biding oot at nicht—there's Willie McKerlie that herded the Lagganmore for forty year, and in the Saxteen Drifty days he wasna hame for a week.

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)