Example sentences for: drifted

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

  • And while we're at it, let's also admit that today's question drifted into "Smelly, Lethargic, Incoherent" territory.

  • In his final painting, Search (1955), Pollock seems to have drifted back even further, to the period before his talent began to emerge.

  • Although the cells were initially isolated on the basis of their expression of cardiac markers, this is an example phenotypic drift—that is, the cells have drifted from a cardiac phenotype during repeated passage rather than simply representing skeletal muscle cells resident within the heart.

  • Spittal Pond is well known for providing rest and recuperation for birds blown off course on long migratory routes: it is possible to spot unusual species that have drifted off their normal routes.

  • At one point in our conversations the subject drifted, and I found myself asking Lewis--thinking he was bound to know--about the kind of ancient Greek writing that was written from left to right on one line, then from right to left on the next, then from left to right again, and so on.


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