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drift apart

VERB
  1. lose personal contact over time
    The two women, who had been roommates in college, drifted apart after they got married

How To Use drift apart In A Sentence

  • Jabbing with the point he kept off Alexei's attack until the reaction of their mid-air collision made them drift apart again.
  • The drift apart had been gradual.
  • The movements did not so much drift apart as come to represent opposed interests.
  • However, despite being inseparable during high school, Enid and Rebecca begin to drift apart as their maturing life goals take them in different directions.
  • Where languages grow most unlike one another as they drift apart is in the shapes of their words.
  • They graduate together, drift apart at University and begin to face the terrors of being a twentysomething at the same time.
  • We had begun to drift apart, but my beating had brought us back onto common ground.
  • And so the friendship slowly began to drift apart.
  • After twelve years of marriage, the two people began to drift apart.
  • After twelve years of marriage, the two people began to drift apart.
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