How to pronounce drift
Listen to drift in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“drift” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 261 American · 366 British · 25 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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We Turn open gates, >> back, >> they drift drift back.
60 Minutes · hear it here
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has heard about procedural drift so procedural drift is when flight crews drift away from how
FAA · hear it here
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continental drift theory.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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expectations to drift upward.
Federal Reserve · hear it here
Why real speech
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