drift off

verb

drifted off; drifting off; drifts off

informal

: to fall asleep

She drifted off while I was still talking.

He gradually drifted off to sleep.

Examples of drift off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Now, Lucas is sharing everything he’s learned about storytelling at a time when the studio system is drifting off a cliff (again). — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026

Though Rosado tested positive for a small amount of meth and had been going up to 90 mph, the evidence indicated that Rosado had fallen asleep and that his car drifted off the freeway before hitting a guardrail, Cherney said. — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2026

Dozens are feared dead after a boat carrying migrants that departed Gambia last month was found by authorities drifting off Spain’s Canary Islands late Wednesday. — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026

What that means is that spacecraft at the unstable points—L1, L2 and the third Lagrange point (L3)—need regular course corrections to keep them from drifting off into space. — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for drift off

• ashraf
• checkoff
• cutoff
• falloff
• handoff
• kickoff
• layoff
• liftoff
• markoff
• markov
• payoff
• playoff