That, in part, is the point behind Washington's allowing the dollar to drift downward against the mark.

It drifted downward throughout 1994 and is now near an all-time low.

This pattern has been noted before, but the new analysis takes in more cases; the typical age is drifting downward.

He drifted downward to her, singing no note of his own.

I started to say, no, I didn't recognize the man, but then my eyes drifted downward from the face and stopped.

Indeed, the market has most recently been drifting downward.

Looking up through the narrow central circle, she could see fog drifting downward.

Sales plunged to half the previous year's level and have continued to drift downward.

Even with oil prices drifting downward, the Russian economy looks likely to expand by more than 3 percent this year.

Since the announcement, the company's stock, which had already been drifting downward, has fallen 5.6 percent.