In recent years they had somehow drifted apart, as the Psychohistory Project had steadily increased in size.

I have kept up with Duparc, Chausson and Debussy over the years, but Fauré's exquisite sequence of nine songs had somehow drifted out of sight.

An alien thought had somehow drifted among his thoughts; it was as if somebody's thickly furred tongue had licked his brain.

An integral element was what looked like a large garden fountain that had somehow drifted indoors.

Through most of his teenage years, he'd fought them off, trying to establish his own identity in contrast to his button-down father, but then in college he had somehow drifted back, hardly even noticing the process.

We'd been looking at some poetry, but had somehow drifted onto talking about soldiers in World War Two being kept in prison camps.

At first Virgil thought he had somehow drifted onto a citizen-band radio frequency, but he soon realized WHN had been turned into WFAN, an all-sports station.

We're in Ethiopia, apparently, although meerkats and suricates have somehow drifted north from the Kalahari.

Marcus slipped in and out of waking, coming back with a sudden start and realizing he had somehow drifted away from the cold and the darkness.

These scenes and incidents had the strangeness of the transcendental, as if they were snatches torn from lives on other planets that had somehow drifted to the earth.