drifting
/ˈdɹɪftɪŋ/ adjective C2- Moving aimlessly or at the mercy of external forces. · The drifting seaweed went wherever the currents carried it.
- Without direction, focus, or goal.
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Every minute that white woolly plain which covered one-half of the moor was drifting closer and closer to the house.
I’d be popping up every minute or so to see where I was and if I wasn’t drifting too far out.
For a few minutes Anne, drifting slowly down, enjoyed the romance of her situation to the full.
Allan the next day, “and it seemed like years while the flat was drifting down to the bridge and the water rising in it every moment.
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