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  1. drifts

    Detached masses of soil and underwood torn off the shore by floods and floating about, often mistaken for rocks and dangers. Also, in ship-building, those parts where the sheer is raised, and the rails are cut off, ending with a scroll; as the drift of the quarter-deck, poop-deck, and forecastle.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of drifts in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of drifts in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of drifts in a Sentence

  1. Janet Kennedy:

    Agree to cuddle until the snuggler drifts off, at which point the other person can retreat to their side of the bed and sleep solo for the rest of the night.

  2. Peter Maurer:

    I find it dangerous when a European country drifts in this direction.

  3. Bernard Fontana:

    I am French and a Polytechnician, so I am the proof that Holcim can be run despite the cultural differences between a Swiss and a French management style... But when a value drifts, that raises a governance problem.

  4. Rooma Mehra:

    Every love story needs a closure. If it is denied that, it drifts aimlessly between the earth and the sky like a ghost..

  5. Woody Allen, Without Feathers:

    A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.

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