How to Use drifter in a Sentence

drifter

noun

• He was a drifter who hitchhiked from state to state.
• What isn't so perfect for that type of solo drifter is the price.
  — C.c. Weiss may 28, New Atlas, 28 May 2026
• He wasn’t seen as a drifter weirdo, but embraced as a friend and a brother.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
• Most of them were migrant workers, young drifters, and then some co-renters.
  — Jack Hargreaves, The Dial, 9 Sep. 2025
• Many of those leads, like a report of a drifter spotted in the area, went nowhere.
  — CBS News, 29 June 2019
• Joey is a drifter working odd jobs and hardly making ends meet.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 2 Feb. 2025
• The owner of an ancient mill hires a drifter to rid the basement of rats.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• Adult fish could simply swim away to other areas, but not the young drifters.
  — Kelsey Ryan, kansascity, 6 July 2018
• David Suchy was a local drifter seen in the area that day, Bowhay says.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2019
• David Suchy was a local drifter seen in the area that day, Bowhay says.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 18 July 2020
• This is where Kate Steinle was killed by a drifter with a gun four years ago.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 31 Aug. 2019
• In any case, these are Beckett’s drifters, no doubt, right down to the aching feet and bad breath.
  — Greg Evans, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
• The Drifters will deliver decades of hits and even a new recording.
  — Denise Harris, star-telegram, 19 July 2017
• Fishing was hottest around Dry Creek with plunkers and drifters using bait.
  — sacbee, 15 Jan. 2018
• Cook played four years at Duke, then was undrafted and became the high plains drifter.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2018
• Matagorda - Winds were light, but so was the bite for drifters in East Bay.
  — Bink Grimes, Houston Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2018
• Sometimes older drifters would pass by, men with only the clothes on their backs, maybe a bedroll across their shoulders.
  — Chris Rush, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• In fact, one of her biggest food joys in TGM is to eat as a solo drifter.
  — Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
• 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
• Among the group was Bates, a 28-year-old, one-eyed drifter from Alabama.
  — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Apr. 2022
• Gone are Bulosan’s pea pickers, drifters and gamblers, hopping freight trains up and down the coast.
  — New York Times, 2 May 2018
• 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
• The grocery survives thanks to passing bargemen and the drifters from the outskirts who frequent the café.
  — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 14 May 2026
• Ali and Rıza are not doubles, but there is a sense that this strange drifter fills a lack that the anxious academic feels.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2025
• 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
• 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
• The scene inspired future comedy gags showing drifters and tramps losing their pants to dogs chasing them.
  — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 29 Jan. 2026
• 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
• That’s our friend behind the counter, a drifter with an alcoholic mother, who’s a big character in the local scene.
  — Francesco Pacifico, The Dial, 9 Dec. 2025
• But, when drifter Zachary Slade comes into the picture, passions hit the fan and plotting ensues.
  — Kt Hawbaker, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2018