Examples of drifter in a Sentence

He was a drifter who hitchhiked from state to state. the drifter just packed up and moved on to the next dead-end job

Recent Examples on the Web After taking a job on a farm run by a reclusive woman, a drifter begins suffering from visions of men trapped inside the bodies of animals. — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 19 Apr. 2022 Walsh’s six-year-old son was murdered in Florida in 1981, and in 2008 Ottis Toole, the Florida drifter with whom Bourgoin joked about barbecue sauce, was posthumously recognized as the child’s murderer. — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022 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 Among the group was Bates, a 28-year-old, one-eyed drifter from Alabama. — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Apr. 2022 The photo in question is a black and white still from Thelma & Louise, the film which gave Pitt one of his earliest breakout roles as the drifter JD. — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 23 Apr. 2022 Martín will play a drifter in search of answers to a mystery from her past, who takes on a job in the countryside looking after a sick teen. — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 15 Feb. 2022 While working at a carnival, the drifter befriends clairvoyant Madame Zeena (Toni Collette) and her husband, Pete (David Strathairn). — Katherine Tinsley, Good Housekeeping, 19 Mar. 2022 Returning home, Médéric is asked for money by Selim (Iliès Kadri, in an eye-catching film debut), a young Arab drifter who cannily plays on both the older man’s paranoid suspicion over his ethnicity and his white guilt over that very mistrust. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 10 Feb. 2022 See More

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