drift apart: meaning & examples
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Meanings:
- To become gradually less close or intimate in a relationship, friendship, or association; to grow distant over time.
Examples
BetaOver the years, the childhood friends slowly drifted apart as their interests and lives changed.
Over the years, the childhood friends slowly drifted apart as their interests and lives changed.
It was sad to see how the band members drifted apart after their last album tour ended.
It was sad to see how the band members drifted apart after their last album tour ended.
Even though they drifted apart in college, they reconnected later and rebuilt their friendship.
Even though they drifted apart in college, they reconnected later and rebuilt their friendship.
Examples:
- EN: Funny how two people can start from the same point and drift apart.ES: Es curioso como dos personas pueden comenzar en el mismo lugar y luego perderse de vista.
- EN: So we don't drift apart.ES: Para que no nos separemos.
- EN: It's just that sometimes two people drift apart... ..and they have to get together again because they were cut out for each other.ES: A veces dos personas se distancian y tienen que volver a juntarse porque están hechos el uno para el otro.
- EN: - What if we drift apart?ES: - ¿Y si nos separamos? - ¡Nunca!
- EN: Your people, they'll drift apart without a leader.ES: acabará desperdigada sin un líder.
- EN: Anything could happen, we could easily drift apart.ES: Todo puede pasar.
- EN: Sometimes mothers and daughters drift apart. Dorothy and I did. I put her away.ES: Es una vieja tradición sureña, que cuando la hija hermosa se casa, se lleve a las hermanas patéticas y solteronas.
- EN: make love, then drift apart again, still nameless.ES: nos amábamos, y nos separábamos sin siquiera decirnos nuestros nombres.
- EN: If we drift apart then I'll be left alone though you used my heart for just a stepping stone.ES: Si nos separamos, entonces me quedaré sola Aunque utilizaste mi corazón solo como trampolín
- EN: - I mean, when two such nice people like you and Sheila just sort of drift apart like people do. - What?ES: - ¿Qué?
- EN: I know, but people can love... and people can still drift apart.ES: Lo sé, pero las personas pueden amar y aún así alejarse.
- EN: Sometimes friends drift apart.ES: A veces los amigos se alejan.
- EN: You and I must never drift apart. That is so important.ES: Tú y yo nunca debemos distanciarnos, Emily, eso es importantísimo.
- EN: Tell me, tell me at once, that — That our lives may drift apart. - Drift apart?ES: Dímelo, dímelo enseguida y que nuestras vidas se separen.
- EN: If we drift apart then I'll be left alone though you used my heart for just a stepping stone.ES: Si nos separamos, entonces me quedaré sola Aunque utilizaste mi corazón solo como trampolín
- EN: - I mean, when two such nice people like you and Sheila just sort of drift apart like people do. - What?ES: - ¿Qué?
- EN: I know, but people can love... and people can still drift apart.ES: Lo sé, pero las personas pueden amar y aún así alejarse.
- EN: Sometimes friends drift apart.ES: A veces los amigos se alejan.
- EN: You and I must never drift apart. That is so important.ES: Tú y yo nunca debemos distanciarnos, Emily, eso es importantísimo.
- EN: Tell me, tell me at once, that — That our lives may drift apart. - Drift apart?ES: Dímelo, dímelo enseguida y que nuestras vidas se separen.
- EN: It's easy for two people to drift apart.ES: Es tan fácil que se separen dos personas.
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