If by some mischance you did fall off, you would merely drift slowly to the ground.

Even if the launcher were severed, the two ends would merely drift around close by.

Our Sun merely drifted in along its 250-million-year galactic orbit, and 40 million years ago was nowhere near the Ursa Major group.

But as it was, merely drifting along, she was almost like a great sheet of paper.

Summers seems to have lost interest in making motion pictures and merely drifted away from the industry, dying forgotten decades later at the age of 77.

Magnetism and inertia still held them to- gether, but the spacecraft were merely drifting at the moment.

No piece of driftwood or castaway dinghy could do that if it were merely drifting in the current.

There were pleasant moments here, but also ones in which she appeared to be merely drifting through space.

It merely drifted, as if on the faintest of breezes.

I merely drifted miserably across those endless waters.