As all these clouds drifted lazily past the setting sun, a large smudge of multicoloured light emerged through the shroud of thin cloud.

Smoke drifts lazily into the skyline, then silence.

As his yacht drifted lazily through the warm night, the answer became obvious.

The words drifted lazily out of the room.

He drifted lazily through several years, dabbling in fiction and theater, and losing his short career as a clerk in the provincial revenue office.

Tiny food particles drift slowly down from the surface, sometimes miles above.

We were able to drift slowly up to them, which they didn't mind at all.

Anticyclones drift slowly around the weather chart and the stronger their air pressure, the more difficult they are to budge.

Light snowflakes continue to drift slowly down as we follow a snow-filled tractor trail up into the mountains, then shuffle through fluffy snow, climbing higher.

As the icebergs break away from the tongue of the glacier, they drift slowly to the mouth of the lagoon and eventually join the ocean.

Sadly, the general drift of her story seems totally credible.

It blamed lower interest rates on savings accounts on the general drift down across the wider market.

General drift of the poem.

Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.

Shortly after landfall, the hurricane significantly slowed, with forward motion reducing to a general drift towards the east.

Your mind drifts back to the hills, to the warmth of the pilgrims you met, and this mystery of pain and joy in alternation.

Occasionally my mind drifts from third eyes and relaxing my glands to thoughts about the interview.

But, understandably, his mind drifts to next summer.

As she plays, her mind drifts back to memories of her own, happy childhood.

Toxic smoke drifts into the air as citizens burn their waste on the hard shoulders.

But as the smoke drifts towards them, they quickly begin to move away.

Smoke drifts lazily into the skyline, then silence.

The smoke drifts into his garden and through his bedroom window.

You can sometimes see a temperature inversion if smoke drifts up from a chimney and flattens out into a sheet as it hits the invisible ceiling of warmer air.

We had to dig ourselves out of a snow drift and use snow ladders and a winch to get clear.

Small flakes of snow drift about without conviction.

Four years ago his office released pictures of the president frolicking in a snow drift with the two pets.

Sections of the park were littered with fence posts, cut logs, plastic drums, and rolled up snow drift fencing.

A snow fort can also be a tunneled-out burrow built in a large snow drift.

I decided to spend half an hour doing nothing every day, just letting my thoughts drift.

Think of your best moment ever together and call it to mind whenever your thoughts drift to her being with other guys.

Try not to let your thoughts drift.

His thoughts drift to a forgotten past.