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adrift

[ UK /ɐdɹˈɪft/ ]
[ US /əˈdɹɪft/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. aimlessly drifting
  2. afloat on the surface of a body of water
    after the storm the boats were adrift
ADVERB
  1. off course, wandering aimlessly
    there was a search for beauty that had somehow gone adrift
  2. floating freely; not anchored
    the boat was set adrift

How To Use adrift In A Sentence

  • Australian authorities have found no signs of foul play aboard a Taiwanese fishing boat found adrift and abandoned off western Australia.
  • Poster boy of creationists everywhere, he has cut himself adrift from the world of real science. Behe vs. Dawkins
  • The survivors were adrift on a raft for six days.
  • It is time the Government acted now to cut them adrift. The Sun
  • She untied the rope and set the boat adrift.
  • The result leaves Pool nine points adrift of safety. The Sun
  • In 1881, the schooner Ellen Austin, bound for London, discovered a derelict adrift in the Sargasso.
  • They are as though adrift at sea without compass or destination, so they might as well demand that theirs be a pleasure cruise. Christianity Today
  • You have the picture of a party that is rudderless and adrift, with no clear-cut strategies of providing principled opposition on issues.
  • For 16 almost uninterrupted years, cancellation left us adrift in time. Times, Sunday Times
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