Definition of "drift off" []

• To fall asleep. (verb)
• To lose concentration (verb)

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• "“I love you, too, Mr. Man,” she whispered, holding his frail hand as she unsuccessfully fought back her tears, watching him drift off to sleep."
• "I saw him drift off into a private reverie, no doubt imagining the Camaros the cops in North Carolina must be tooling around in."
• "Then I let myself drift off to sleep, and I prayed in my own special way for visions of sugarplums to dance in my head."