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lose personal contact over time
The two women, who had been roommates in college, drifted apart after they got married
How To Use drift away In A Sentence
- Her mind slowly began to drift away from Rosetta, filling itself with questions.
- Like many young birds, especially large ones, they tend to drift away once they are fully fledged. Times, Sunday Times
- Everything slowly began to drift away but this time, instead of the nightmares the mysterious stranger that haunted my dreams greeted me.
- Dominic slowly began to drift away from his drinking problem, though he didn't lose it completely.
- The show's creator, Marc Cherry, appeared to admit one of the incontestable truths about TV — "The only thing harder than creating a hit show is knowing when to end it" — saying he was afraid the show would "drift away into nothing" if allowed to continue indefinitely. Critic's TCA Notebook: That's a Wrap
- After several weeks of disrupted business, the dealers began to drift away.
- Then the ship would become unmanageable and drift away, with the possibility of getting excessive sternway on her and so damaging rudder or propeller, the South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917
- If they don't learn lessons and have humility to adapt they will drift away. Times, Sunday Times
- Voices rose in an unhappy mutter, but the crowd began to drift away, and the sergeant walked over.
- You grasp at it, only for it to dissolve or drift away. Times, Sunday Times
