"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
1. simply drift = po prostu znieś simply drift
2. merely drift = jedynie znieś merely drift
  • If by some mischance you did fall off, you would merely drift slowly to the ground.
  • Even if the launcher were severed, the two ends would merely drift around close by.
  • Our Sun merely drifted in along its 250-million-year galactic orbit, and 40 million years ago was nowhere near the Ursa Major group.
  • But as it was, merely drifting along, she was almost like a great sheet of paper.
  • Summers seems to have lost interest in making motion pictures and merely drifted away from the industry, dying forgotten decades later at the age of 77.
  • Magnetism and inertia still held them to- gether, but the spacecraft were merely drifting at the moment.
  • No piece of driftwood or castaway dinghy could do that if it were merely drifting in the current.
  • There were pleasant moments here, but also ones in which she appeared to be merely drifting through space.
  • It merely drifted, as if on the faintest of breezes.
  • I merely drifted miserably across those endless waters.
(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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