How to use in-sentence of “drift”:
– Her subsequent north-westerly drift had, by mid- before the line snapped, a depth which confirmed there was no land in the vicinity.
– Anatahan Volcano is a small volcanic island of ash and rock were ejected, causing a large, black cloud to drift south over Saipan and Tinian.
– There is some controversy over the practice of sinking the corpses of child victims of hypothermia under the ice, as bodies have been known to drift through the currents and wash up on the eastern coast of Canada, and, upon occasion, the northeastern United States.
– Genetic drift explains how random chance can affect evolution in surprisingly big ways, but only when populations are quite small.
– Longshore drift is the process of the ocean currents forcing sand and other material down a beach.
Example sentences of “drift”:
- It might happen by genetic drift if the population is small enough.
- The larvae drift in the plankton until they go to the bottom again to grow.
- Africa and Australasia split from Gondwana to drift north, and India collided with Southeast Asia; Antarctica moved into its current position over the South Pole; the Atlantic Ocean widened and, late in the era, South America became attached to North America.
– It might happen by genetic drift if the population is small enough.
– The larvae drift in the plankton until they go to the bottom again to grow.
– Africa and Australasia split from Gondwana to drift north, and India collided with Southeast Asia; Antarctica moved into its current position over the South Pole; the Atlantic Ocean widened and, late in the era, South America became attached to North America.
– He was known for his discoveries: Tsirelson’s bound, Tsirelson space, Tsirelson drift and Gaussian isoperimetric inequality.
– They do this so their eggs will not drift away.
– This continental drift leads to subduction of plate tectonicsoceanic plates beneath the continental plates of the land mass.
– Although continental drift explained many of Wegener’s observations, he could not find scientific evidence to make a complete explanation of how continents move.
– Continental drift is a historical, scientific theory.
– If longshore drift continues for a long time, beaches can be changed quite a bit.
– Longshore drift is the net movement of sand grains across a beach in a zig-zag motion.
– Holmes showed us that thermal convection currents were strong enough to move large land masses, which contributed to Alfred Wegener’s theory of continental drift or theory of Plate tectonics.
– Usually they do not need to worry about drift from the wind, and there are no currents on land, so this reckoning is easier.
– The basic mechanism of drift is that genetic variety is reduced by chance, making the individuals more similar to each other, and hence more vulnerable.
– A well-known example of channel drift is MTV.
– The spectators drift away.
– McCartney provided the fourth verse of the song, a short piano piece he had been working on by himself, with lyrics about a commuter whose uneventful morning routine leads him to drift off into a dream.
– Almost 6 million years ago, continental drift closed the Strait of Gibraltar.
– Wheels may be a very useful peak, but the valley around that peak is too low or too wide for the gene pool to move to it by genetic drift or natural selection.
– Andersen writes of the scene, “By the hundred they rise from the graveyard and drift into the cloister.
– The fish eggs, left behind at the Agulhas Banks, drift north west with the current into waters off the west coast, where the larvae develop into juvenile fish.