"drift" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

drift verbo

verbo + drift
Kolokacji: 7
begin to drift • begin drifting • keep drifting • come drifting • start drifting • ...
drift + preposición
Kolokacji: 55
drift off • drift into • drift down • drift through • drift toward • drift across • drift over • drift up • drift out • ...
drift + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 70
drift away • drift apart • drift slowly • drift further • drift upward • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 15
(1) away, forth, wide, randomly
Kolokacji: 4
(4) upward, downward
Kolokacji: 2
(5) lazily, gradually, idly
Kolokacji: 3
(6) forward, backward, onward
Kolokacji: 3
(8) low, high
Kolokacji: 2
(9) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(10) eventually, finally
Kolokacji: 2
(11) free, faintly, freely, clear
Kolokacji: 4
(12) quietly, steadily
Kolokacji: 2
1. drift quietly = znieś cicho drift quietly
  • Ideas drifted quietly like falling petals into his mind.
  • I lie there, almost at peace, my mind drifting quietly.
  • Lindsay drifted quietly in a corner of the control room, not watching the screen.
  • I took it into my mind to drift quietly.
  • It came up on the screen at once, alongside the image of the quietly drifting vessel.
  • As the boat drifted quietly, birds began calling through the trees along the riverbank.
  • How many years had she spent quietly drifting in Avalon?
  • A minor coincidence the other way, and my friends might all have been quietly drifting away, knowing I had run out on them.
  • The car drifted quietly along a quiet street of homes.
  • The two Stenos drifted quietly for a long moment.
2. drift steadily = znieś stale drift steadily
(13) casually, effortlessly
Kolokacji: 2
(14) constantly, endlessly
Kolokacji: 2

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