drift
noun
driftless
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a word derived from
drift.
Example Sentences
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After co-workers bought some of her cookies at Christmas 2019, Bohn decided to start her Driftless Cookies business, named after Wisconsin’s driftless region near where she grew up.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
They are lawyers, and they are civic leaders who mock his driftless efforts to persuade multiple municipalities to engage in a bidding war for a new stadium.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2022
“The driftless area, I’d never been before,” Waller said.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 21, 2018
That’s because the eastern half of the state, especially in the so-called driftless region along the Mississippi River, has fewer evangelical Christians than just about anywhere in the country outside the Northeast.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2016
In spite of the fact that glaciation causes swamps and lakes, the proportion of land cultivated in the glaciated areas is larger than in the driftless.
From The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America by Ellsworth Huntington
