1. drifting
If he keeps drifting aimlessly, his late father will turn over in his grave.
I was drifting about aimlessly.
Thick mist immediately began to pour through the portal, drifting lazily across Kelsier's body.
Examples of unexpected incidents are drifting debris, grounded vessels, sunken vessels and drifting fishing equipment.
Drifting off to sleep again, the same dream returned, three times in all.
Many young Japanese people are drifting aimlessly in life.
2. drift
Many people drift through life without a purpose.
the government's drift towards a centralization of power
Liam drifted in at 2a.m., not even aware of how late it was.
The ice may drift considerable distances each day.
The drift of the current is to the south.
Maybe, but I can't catch the drift of even simple situations.
Waves of joy drift through my opened heart.
The logs drifted on the stream.
He hardly resisted the drift. He was drifted about 5 kilometres.
The car got stuck in a large drift of snow
We drifted for few nautical miles.
The conversation seems to have drifted a little while I was away ... I can’t quite see where all this is heading.
The tree branch fell into the river and drifted away downstream
No one noticed that the boat carrying the child had begun to drift out to sea.
To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it— but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
3. float
He can't even float let alone swim.
Hold the float.
A dog was rescued from an iceberg floating 18 miles from land in the Baltic Sea
I saw - or thought I saw - something white and shapeless float through the trees.
Yea, would to God, I were among the roses, That lean to kiss you as you float between While on the lowest branch a bud uncloses A bud uncloses, to touch you, my queen.
The Kawagoe festival float has the shape of what's called a hoko float. It has three, or four, wheels attached.
If you float a one yen coin on water and move a magnet slowly towards it then the coin will approach the magnet.
If plants and stones are in the water then this will happen: the plants float and the rocks sink.
I like floating on my back in the pool. A balloon floated across the sky.
Tasks on a critical path have no float.
Drop pierogi into boiling water. Cook gently 3-5 minutes, or until they float.
That wood is very light. It won’t sink in the water; it will float.
Definition if you are floating, you are lying on water without sinking
Everybody in our club helped to decorate our float for the festival with paper flowers.
Will’s mother had given us eighty pounds as a ‘float’.