Example Sentences

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“Otherwise, people will continue to use the side roads during peak hours and will be drifting onto the other surrounding highways, and that’s not a good outcome.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2015

The genes will be drifting in different ways.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2012

Herb Klein, the longtime Nixon friend and press aide, is looking into the condition of the publishing industry, and he will be drifting off.

From Time Magazine Archive

If I have one career and something like covid-19 happens, I will be drifting, a capsized boat.

From Washington Post

He will be drifting off soon on that tidal wave of ore fever that comes over him; Piney has been gone for a great while.

From Sally of Missouri by Young, Rose E. (Rose Emmet)