Example sentences for: drift

How can you use “drift” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To make certain that the viewer catches the negative ad's drift, double-exposed over the scene is a shot of a pallid, black-and-white Dole and a grimacing Gingrich.

  • I am addressing this to you since I don't have the address of the journal of original publication ( The Independent ), and hope that word may eventually drift back to England.

  • But while admitting the plausibility of Gavrilets's models of speciation by genetic drift, they nevertheless maintain that “the models seem unnecessary when compared to adaptive ones” (p.

  • The nearly neutral theory of evolution (Ohta 1973) predicts accelerated fixation of deleterious mutations through random genetic drift in small populations, a phenomenon that has been observed in endosymbionts (Moran 1996; Lambert and Moran 1998).

  • Having, perhaps, stacked the deck, Coyne and Orr find almost no evidence that drift has contributed to speciation in nature, but conclude that there is “considerable evidence” that selection has done so.


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