drift away

One day he simply drifted away and did not come back.

But he had been drifting away from us for years.

These days, he could not help drifting away to the past.

Then the thought drifted away as he looked up at me.

She let go of me and started to drift away.

But after the others had drifted away and only one Blood was left, the talk got more personal.

Some members might drift away, and maybe one or two of them would talk.

Maybe he'd drift away for ever and they'd never find him.

He tried to think about it but his mind kept drifting away.

He'd drifted away, as though he were talking to himself.

There was more, but now everything wanted to drift away again.

The voice drifted away, and Tom felt something leave his mind.

Within about 20 minutes, everybody had drifted away, and the police left too.

One woman drifted away with a couple of the children as if she'd heard it all before.

For the moment, the best way is to drift away from trouble.

Many men were drifting away from their homes in those days.

Watch the ball game for a while, then drift away.

Everyone seemed drifting away, leaving him out of their lives.

Almost at once he began to drift away from his pain.

At first the children seemed interested, but they drifted away.

The other girls, some with last looks at me, drifted away.

Most of the men about had, by now, drifted away.

Finally they drifted away from each other, still holding hands.

He closed his eyes and let the world begin to drift away.

But in the middle of the day, the animals drift away into a life all their own.