How to Use drifter in a Sentence

drifter

noun

• He was a drifter who hitchhiked from state to state.
• David Suchy was a local drifter seen in the area that day, Bowhay says.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 18 July 2020
• Matagorda - Winds were light, but so was the bite for drifters in East Bay.
  — Bink Grimes, Houston Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2018
• Many of those leads, like a report of a drifter spotted in the area, went nowhere.
  — CBS News, 29 June 2019
• The driver of the Orange Toyota was a 25-year-old drifter by the name of Richard Ramirez.
  — Paul Buchanan, Los Angeles Magazine, 15 May 2017
• The owner of an ancient mill hires a drifter to rid the basement of rats.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• That was the moment James, a 62-year-old drifter, took his place in the gallery of New York villains.
  — Mark Jacobson, Curbed, 25 Apr. 2022
• This is where Kate Steinle was killed by a drifter with a gun four years ago.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 31 Aug. 2019
• Among the group was Bates, a 28-year-old, one-eyed drifter from Alabama.
  — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Apr. 2022
• The Drifters will deliver decades of hits and even a new recording.
  — Denise Harris, star-telegram, 19 July 2017
• The Wrong Man is based on a rock-song cycle by Ross Golan about a drifter framed for murder.
  — Adam Green, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2019
• The film is, first and foremost, a Western, with the hard-drinking Jay Swan serving in the drifter-from-out-of-town role.
  — Kerry Lengel, azcentral, 15 Mar. 2018
• Fishing was hottest around Dry Creek with plunkers and drifters using bait.
  — sacbee, 15 Jan. 2018
• The Rockets are grim-visaged drifters spoiling for a shootout.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2018
• In the course of his research, Lumpkin has launched 1,250 devices called drifters into the ocean.
  — Nick Stockton, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2016
• Adult fish could simply swim away to other areas, but not the young drifters.
  — Kelsey Ryan, kansascity, 6 July 2018
• Cook played four years at Duke, then was undrafted and became the high plains drifter.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2018
• It’s a hammock, a drifter, a chair or even a piece of exercise equipment if that’s your kind of thing.
  — Kathleen Walsh, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2022
• Turning in slow circles at a depth of around 500 feet, the larval fish was — for the moment — a peaceful ocean drifter.
  — Biographic, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2019
• According to court records, Miller was a drifter who had been living in the home of a man who picked him up hitch-hiking.
  — Travis Loller, The Seattle Times, 28 Nov. 2018
• Public records suggest that Selovich has roots in Missouri but has lived his adult life as a drifter.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Dec. 2019
• Galveston - Winds were light for most of the morning, which allowed drifters to target trout over deep shell.
  — Bink Grimes, Houston Chronicle, 11 Jan. 2018
• When Shirlee returned, Theo would remind her about the Wisconsin drifter and the danger of this kind of life style.
  — Addie Citchens, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• Gone are Bulosan’s pea pickers, drifters and gamblers, hopping freight trains up and down the coast.
  — New York Times, 2 May 2018
• Arwen thinks Cushion’s head looks like one of Richard Avedon’s road-trip portraits—one of the drifters.
  — Annie Proulx, The New Yorker, 30 June 2024
• Hartzell a drifter who doesn’t drift much — a fixture among the transients who have found a permanent home in St. Paul’s North End.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 23 Feb. 2017
• Johnson, a drifter and ex-convict, was 24 when the murder took place, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 24 Apr. 2023
• An ex-con drifter who knows his way around a guitar and a ranch, Walker is wary of Yellowstone.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2022
• Along with her guide, a drifter named Boyce, Gray is sent to the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands, where the pair must outwit and outfight man and demon.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 25 Feb. 2021
• This new technology can kick in precisely in time to safeguard a driver and manage a loss of control, just as an expert drifter would.
  — New Atlas, 30 July 2024

Last Updated: 26 Nov 2024