"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
1. drift forward = znieś do przodu drift forward
2. drift backward = znieś do tyłu drift backward
3. drift onward = dryf dalszy drift onward
  • We drifted slowly onward.
  • In a few years they would pass the orbit of Pluto and go drifting onward, slowly but inevitably, toward the stars.
  • The air would simply drift onward, retaining its moisture.
  • They drift onward, unhindered, here, there, everywhere.
  • Engines had been halted; but the liner was drifting onward.
  • It was a saddened company that drifted onward through the air toward whatever destination Fate was to choose for them.
  • The cavalry drifted onward, screening the division's outside flank.
  • Let me drift onward to the azure edge -- I can but die!
  • The boat still drifted onward, and it was not more than twelve feet off, when the sailor exclaimed,-- "But it is our own boat!
  • Doj and I drifted onward.
(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
(13) casually, effortlessly
Kolokacji: 2
(14) constantly, endlessly
Kolokacji: 2

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