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Get to know Drifter better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like vagrant or floater.

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Drifter in a sentence

Related words

Drifter | Drift | Drifted | Drifting | Drifts | Drifters

Drifter meaning

  1. A person who moves from place to place or job to job.
  2. A type of lightweight sail used in light winds like a spinnaker.
  3. A driver who uses driving techniques to modify vehicle traction to cause a vehicle to slide or power slide rather than drive in line with the tires.

Synonyms of Drifter

vagrant floater vagabond wanderer roamer rover bird of passage poor person have-not

Related words

Other words often associated with Drifter or its synonyms:

traveler traveller drifting unsettled aimless unfortunate floating symptom spider object spots programme

Using Drifter

  • The main meaning on this page is: A person who moves from place to place or job to job. | A type of lightweight sail used in light winds like a spinnaker. | A driver who uses driving techniques to modify vehicle traction to cause a vehicle to slide or power slide rather than drive in line with the tires.
  • Useful related words include: vagrant, floater, vagabond, wanderer.
  • In the example corpus, drifter often appears in combinations such as: the drifter, drifter who, drifter and.

Context around Drifter

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
  • Position in the sentence: 8 start, 9 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations

Often before:

young 1× ivorian 1× scruffy 1× herring 1× hardened 1× triangle 1× scheming 1× german 1× roguish 1× claiming 1×

Often after:

carrying 1× steven 1× mcconaughey 1× fights 1× brueckner 1× forced 1×

Sentence patterns with Drifter

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

a drifter carrying the 1× a herring drifter 1× a roguish drifter and jin 1× a scheming drifter 1× a young drifter with a 1× an ivorian drifter who was 1× animal claiming drifter forced him 1× as a drifter a driver 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a drifter carrying 1× an ivorian drifter 1× claudia karvan plays 1× events like our 1× german drifter brueckner 1× in june 1986 1×

Common sentence endings:

a herring drifter 1× a savage land 1× a scheming drifter 1× adventurer a fighter 1× after the murder 1× after williams death 1×

Words around Drifter

Just before it in the word index:

drifted 271 drift 484 driffield 9 driest 122 driessen 4 dries 157

Just after it in the word index:

drifters 29 drifting 255 driftless 7 driftmark 4 driftpile 3 drifts 92

Similar in corpus frequency:

aachen 52 abayomi 52 abbots 52 abduct 52 abram 52 acetylcholine 52

Corpus analysis for Drifter

  • In this selection, "drifter" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, young, ivorian, scruffy, carrying, steven and mcconaughey stand out and add context to how "drifter" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a drifter carrying the and a herring drifter. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "drifter" sits close to words such as aachen, abayomi and abbots, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with drifter

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Claudia Karvan plays against type as a scheming drifter. (9 words)

Or inspect the coastline of Chilean Patagonia aboard a herring drifter. (11 words)

Triangle Drifter: And anything that Burt says is to be believed? (11 words)

Longer example sentences

In June 1986, at the pinnacle of ritzy Rodeo Drive’s rise to become one of the most celebrated shopping streets in the world, scruffy drifter Steven Livaditis attempted to hold up the chic Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry boutique. (39 words)

Events like our gift market support our rescue efforts to help dogs like Drifter and the hundreds of other dogs, puppies, cats, and kittens in our care and the many more that will need our help this winter. (38 words)

She enlists the aid of Mugen, a roguish drifter and Jin, a stoic swordsman after she helps them escape from jail, and together they journey across Japan, encountering plenty of interesting characters along the way. (35 words)

Question examples

Triangle Drifter: And anything that Burt says is to be believed? (11 words)

Exclamation examples

Back to the reverse chinlock, the Drifter fights out with elbows and hammers him with a knee, but Cesaro catches him right back into the chinlock! (26 words)

Example sentences (20)

Events like our gift market support our rescue efforts to help dogs like Drifter and the hundreds of other dogs, puppies, cats, and kittens in our care and the many more that will need our help this winter.

Sadly, that means Donut Plains, a drifter’s paradise, is ranked at this criminally low position.

Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from his tribal land in the Four Corners region, who wants to believe one place is just like another.

A drifter carrying the artifact comes across a group of strangers, who quickly become drawn into an adventure that could unleash Hell on Earth.

An Ivorian drifter who was living in Perugia, Guede was arrested in Germany where he fled after the murder.

In June 1986, at the pinnacle of ritzy Rodeo Drive’s rise to become one of the most celebrated shopping streets in the world, scruffy drifter Steven Livaditis attempted to hold up the chic Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry boutique.

Most of the music made under Luke The Drifter was released after Williams’ death.

Not only an immediate distrust of hitchhikers (the ultimate stranger; a drifter on the street with no home, no car and no real direction) but a warning against the very basics of human kindness.

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Or inspect the coastline of Chilean Patagonia aboard a herring drifter.

The post-apocalyptic "Mad Max" was completely revitalized in 2015 with the acclaimed "Mad Max: Fury Road," with Tom Hardy playing the eponymous hardened drifter.

Triangle Drifter: And anything that Burt says is to be believed?

Two teenage boys (played by Tye Sheridan and Jacob Lofland) discover a drifter (McConaughey) sleeping rough on the banks of the Mississippi and decide to help him win back his true love.

Whether Drifter's is still coming to the airport was unknown Wednesday.

Back to the reverse chinlock, the Drifter fights out with elbows and hammers him with a knee, but Cesaro catches him right back into the chinlock!

Claudia Karvan plays against type as a scheming drifter.

German drifter Brueckner used to live and sleep in the van on the beach near Praia da Luz between February and April 2006 while he was unemployed and homeless.

If you’re unfamiliar with the game, you play a Drifter, a collector of forgotten and arcane knowledge in a savage land.

In the deserts of a wasteland-like Australia, Max Rockatansky lives on the roads as a drifter, a driver, an adventurer, a fighter.

She enlists the aid of Mugen, a roguish drifter and Jin, a stoic swordsman after she helps them escape from jail, and together they journey across Japan, encountering plenty of interesting characters along the way.

Stokes also attributes his own health to the animal, claiming Drifter forced him to take care of himself.

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Common combinations with drifter

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "drifter" in a sentence?
An example: "Events like our gift market support our rescue efforts to help dogs like Drifter and the hundreds of other dogs, puppies, cats, and kittens in our care and the many more that will need our help this winter." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "drifter" from authentic English texts.
What does "drifter" mean?
Drifter means: A person who moves from place to place or job to job.
What are synonyms of "drifter"?
Common synonyms of "drifter" include: vagrant, floater, vagabond, wanderer, roamer, rover, bird of passage, poor person. Plus 1 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "drifter" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "drifter", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.