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n. (plural of drifting English)
Usage examples of "driftings".
Some wonderful red stones, brilliant as rubies, glittered in among the diaphanous black driftings of her dress.
Others believe the driftings of the continents may have produced at least some of the Earth’s various extinction events.
There was something familiar about it, from driftings off and awakenings perhaps.
It is impossible, in the present temper of the scientific imagination, to find in the driftings of the cosmic atoms, whether they work on the universal or on the particular scale, anything but a kind of aimless weather, doing and undoing, achieving no proper history, and leaving no result.
Franklin's letter I sent to him in the library—into which refuge his driftings had now taken him for the second time.