Over the years they drifted further away from their families and communities.
He drifted further, and did not trouble to fight the drugs.
If anything, he's a little worse each year, drifting further away from the world, and me.
However, his mind was far away from the images drifting across the movie screen.
"As the years went by, their friendship drifted even further."
But the island has been drifting further away from mainland control with its democratic development over the past 15 years.
After a long wait, it drifted further off into the leaves, and was lost to sight.
Earth will drift still farther from the Sun, to a distance of 172 million miles.
But once he lost the ability to perform, did his thoughts drift even further away from problems of performance?
If he were alive, he'd have drifted far out of where we're able to patrol by now anyway.