- present participle of drift.
drifting
Example Sentences
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Search efforts had to be suspended overnight before the family were found still drifting at sea the following day, Thai media report.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The same chatbot, shown years of labs, imaging and diagnoses, can catch glucose, blood pressure and weight drifting up together, years before any one measure crosses a line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
They know it crosses the Atlantic as a one-year-old fish, drifting on currents for up to three years to reach the freshwater lakes of Europe.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
In something of an irony, Lotus’s historic approach to cornering and traction management—crossed up, tail out, mustaches ablaze—looks a lot like what the kids call drifting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
It was an experience common to most childhoods, though new to Penelope—that of drifting off to sleep as her parents spoke quietly in another room, trying not to be overheard.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
