Drift example sentences

He turned to wave just once and then became one of the hundreds of grey-coated men drifting back towards their trenches.In the hushed silence of the house when I am quite alone, and my friend, who was here has gone, it is very lonely, very quiet, as I sit in a liquid silence, a silence within, surrounded by the rhythm of rain, the steady drift of water on leaves, on lemons, on roof, drumming on drenched dahlias and window panes, while the mist holds the house in a dark caress.The convectional currents split the crust into a number of pieces, thus leading to the drifting of the Indo-Australian plate after being separated from the Gondwana land, towards north.One can calculate this drift speed of electrons for a typical copper wire carrying a small current, and it is found to be actually very small, of the order of 1 mm s- How is it then that an electric bulb lights up as soon as we turn the switch on? It cannot be that a current starts only when an electron from one terminal of the electric supply physically reaches the other terminal through the bulb, because the physical drift of electrons in the conducting wires is a very slow process.The northward drift resulted in the collision of the plate with the much larger Eurasian Plate.Note that it does not move at all as other stars drift from east to west.Jody allowed his thoughts to drift back to the fawn.It was formed due to the breaking and drifting of the Gondwana land and thus, making it a part of the oldest landmass.When a steady current flows through a conductor, the electrons in it move with a certain average 'drift speed'.But now, after thirty bitter years of being adrift, their livelihood having even being more precarious, they keep asking: “Are we the only ones chosen to make sacrifices for the nation.MIDWAY between Mysore and the coastal town of Mangalore sits a piece of heaven that must have drifted from the kingdom of god.Other organic substances with serious impacts are the pesticides that drift down from sprays or runoff from lands.