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.

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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
Gomersal are still ten points adrift of Yeadon, who had the better of their drawn home match against Farsley.
Three insulating panels had come adrift from the base of the vehicle.
The result has seen them gain ground on rivals Spain and France but they are still well adrift of leaders Brazil.
A fourth mistake was the withholding of our wheat from world markets in 1929, with a view to forcing - one might as well be frank - higher prices, and the associated policy of cutting adrift from the established wheat trade selling agencies in Great Britain and elsewhere. Our National Task
Our arguments, our anger, the anxious pleading of philanthropists who saw the young on the East Side going to ruin, the warning year after year of the superintendent of schools that the compulsory education law was but an empty mockery where it was most needed, the knocking of uncounted thousands of children for whom there was no room, uncounted in sober fact; there was not even a way of finding out how many were adrift, 3brought only the response that the tax rate must be kept down. II. The Outworks of the Slum Taken
The fisherman cast off the rope and set the boat adrift.
I therefore kept the felucca away until I found that she was rather more than holding her own in the race, when I once more lashed the tiller, and, calling to Dominguez to look out for the things that I was about to launch overboard, ran to the gangway, and first successfully set the wash-deck tub afloat, then rolled the breaker of water out through the open _gangway_, and finally sent the mast and sail adrift; after which I returned to the tiller and watched the process of picking up the several articles, as I gradually brought the felucca to her former course, close-hauled upon the starboard tack. A Pirate of the Caribbees
These are our people cut adrift from their normality, a nation all at sea. Times, Sunday Times
There, on the fore-deck of the prau, old Lingard found her under a heap of dead and dying pirates, and had her carried on the poop of the Flash before the Malay craft was set on fire and sent adrift. Almayer's Folly
However, Gary Greenwood led the fight-back with an unbeaten 39 only to run out of partners with Thackley just two runs adrift of forcing a tie.
A 740-foot cargo ship was disabled and floating adrift in high winds about 540 miles southwest of Adak on Sunday. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: December 21, 2009
If adults are so adrift, what can they offer their children?
The fisherman cast off the rope and set the boat adrift.
This image, captured by NASA's MODIS satellite sensor on February 23, shows the shelf mid-disintegration, spewing a cloud of icebergs adrift in the Weddell Sea.
Indeed, the vendetta seems aimed at the community also, for it has seen a deer fence cut and boats set adrift.
The good thing is we're not bottom or cut adrift. The Sun
I must confess that, when I came on deck after the krang had been cast adrift, I was not sorry to see my friend in that condition. Peter the Whaler
Beyond Mr Jefferson's high black hat, through those tangled dew-drops of flame, Mr Goosevort saw golden hair glide softly through the oasis of bodies gathered vaguely round the stage, Mr Umberto and Mrs. Jefferson laughed again together, and Mr Howle's mournful ululation could be heard adrift a lake of rabble... golden hair turning away and fluttering into the shadow of a winding stairway. Mr Goosevort
I thought he looked adrift in a place where nobody recognised him, apart from me. Times, Sunday Times
A fixing had come adrift, freeing about seven or eight feet of the bamboo screening.
The link between aesthetics and politics which forms the novel's principal thesis is only an abstract one - in practice, the link did not exist, and most of the writers, artists, filmmakers and composers who began by espousing the cause of a New Jerusalem built from Marxist revolutionism ultimately found themselves cast adrift in a murky sea of violence, war, totalitarianism and genocide. A private story
No one has been cast adrift and no one has really pulled clear of danger. The Sun
Just as he really was, he, who was not familiar with such mirrors, could see Count Manuel, housed in a little wet dirt with old inveterate stars adrift about him everywhither; and the spectacle was enough to frighten anybody. Figures of Earth
What I do know is that it's very difficult to pal around with the Muse when kids ask for snacks, the house is adrift in strewn toys, and the theme song from Arthur wafts through the air yet again. January 2007
He drove the mare ahead inside the furlong pole, getting first run on Peineve, who finished with a flourish, but was still a neck adrift at the line.
If mankind generally are the shipwrecked survivors of some pre-Adamitic cataclysm, set adrift in these little open boats of humanity to make one more trial to reach the shore, -- as some grave theologians have maintained, -- if, in plain English, men are the ghosts of dead devils who have "died into life," (to borrow an expression from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
They have taken five points from a possible 45 and are nine points adrift. Times, Sunday Times
He is wearing a chocolate brown moleskin suit, a dark shirt and tartan clip-on braces, one of which has come adrift.
Amy had the growing sense that she was adrift and isolated.
The 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, Wangari Maathai offers a refreshingly unique perspective on the challenge facing Africa, even as she calls for a moral revolution among Africans themselves, who, she argues, are culturally deracinated, adrift between worlds. The Challenge for Africa by Wangari Maathai: Book summary
One satellite phone, three journalists and a local boatsman adrift on a piranha infested fast-moving river headed straight for the river's mouth and the angry Atlantic Ocean beyond. CNN Transcript Apr 22, 2004
Bradley Wiggins of Britain climbed from sixth place to third, 1: 46 adrift of the Spaniard. Contador climbs to lead of Tour de France with Stage 15 win
A Finnegan's Wake, where an interior monologue becomes the reason for painting adrift, images whose common thread is a diary of my most intimate memories.
Yet, the shapes were sufficiently indefinite to make me careful not to let myself be overimpressed by the uncomfortable resemblance, though I must confess, the very thought was sufficient to set some odd thrills adrift in me. Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
Skipton are seven points adrift of safety after going down to a Knaresborough side in which Mike Baxendall continued his wicket taking.
We need be idea-steading, not putting ourselves adrift at sea. Patri Friedman on Seasteading, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
after the storm the boats were adrift
I nearly suffocated when the pipe of my breathing apparatus came adrift.
Even if they are five miles an hour adrift, the defendant was still doing forty miles an hour.
We were adrift in the Atlantic, the boat moving only with the rocking of the waves and when the rare puff of wind blew through our sails.
The problem with Eyes Adrift is that they make lifeless, middle-of-the-road tunes that exist, barely.
The sailboat was adrift on the open sea
Beyond the main characters we glimpse many others adrift in the warzone. Times, Sunday Times
Grant never called for help in his life, but just then I seemed to catch a glimpse, within the masterful commander and veteran statesman, of the thin-skinned Scotch yokel from the Ohio tanyard uneasily adrift in an old so-superior world which he'd have liked to despise but couldn't help feeling in awe of. Watershed
I'm no expert when it comes to sailing, but I'm told a boat is adrift when it fails to tack to the wind, is overloaded on one side (in this case, portside), or is untethered from its anchor.
Yet he cannot even run his own department; while the captain of the ship squabbles with his crew below deck, the vessel is adrift and rudderless.
Attached to the sack was a length of pennant rigging, which he left adrift within reach of the opening chute.
Shortly after this I nearly suffocated when the pipe of my breathing apparatus came adrift.
The boat of refugees was turned adrift by order of the guard.
Beyond the main characters we glimpse many others adrift in the warzone. Times, Sunday Times
By the end of the second session, the 2002 world champion was four frames adrift of his opponent.
Second-bottom Ilkley are a point behind Calverley and a further two adrift of Knaresborough, who claimed a crucial win at bottom club Skipton.
Wellcome closed just 4p adrift at 475p, SmithKline Beecham shed 15p to 428p and Medeva slipped 1p to 219p.
She sat thus for a long period, her meditations adrift in the future; and that which she foreread left her nor all sorry nor profoundly glad, for living seemed by this, though scarcely the merry and colorful business which she had esteemed it, yet immeasurably the more worth while. Chivalry
Three of our space probes have left the solar system altogether and are now adrift in interstellar space, carrying earthlings' assorted greetings to whoever stumbles upon them.
He was adrift in an open boat for three days.
Three insulating panels had come adrift from the base of the vehicle.
Shortly after this I nearly suffocated when the pipe of my breathing apparatus came adrift.
A radiance now came pouring through the eastern opening down the gorge or cwm itself, and soon the light vapours floating about the pool were turned to sailing gauzes, all quivering with different dyes, as though a rainbow had become torn from the sky and woven into gossamer hangings and set adrift. Aylwin
The southern states are loud in vehement threats of secession, if the republican candidate is elected; but their bluster is really lamentably ludicrous, for they are without money, without credit, without power, without character – in short, sans everything, but so many millions of slaves, sans good numbers of whom they would also be the very moment they cut themselves adrift from the protection of the North. Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
His "articulacy" comes straight from the teleprompter, he is stumbling and adrift when speaking off-the-cuff, and his "political adroitness" is non-existent, to wit the types of people with whom he chooses to associate himself. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
They are in second place, only 11 points adrift of Surrey, but fourth-placed Leicestershire could also come into the reckoning if they defeat Yorkshire.
Which was just as well because the button you'd just attached often came adrift again in a matter of moments. Times, Sunday Times
Thin-skinned crab ravioli are adrift in a gingery consommé studded with the same golden beets that brighten up his citrus-and-miso-dressed mesclun salad.
Although twenty per cent. of the labouring population were turned adrift in that locality, not one supernumerary was disemployed. The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines
Da Silva plays a bright, lonely student from New York, adrift in small-town Arizona.
I nearly suffocated when the pipe on my breathing apparatus came adrift.
The dog was described as "emaciated, but alive" after it had been adrift since the March 11 disaster. CBC | Top Stories News
Lesser women would have cut their errant husband adrift.
Without Chambers, the genealogist would be left to wonder why her great-grandfather was set adrift by Admiral Peary for being a "mallemaroking jobernowl. Defined Intervention
We are helplessly adrift and our current location is unknown.
I am convinced a quiet approach, adrift on the breeze or under electric trolling power, encourages fish to continue feeding and results in more strikes.
the captain was set adrift by his roguish crew
Could it be cast adrift in a bad year? Times, Sunday Times
They're spirits -- ghosts of sailors that drowned as long ago as when that cask went adrift from a sinkin 'ship, an' that's years an 'years, Miss, as anybody can see, lookin' at the size of the barnacles on it. CHAPTER XXXVI
Each fevered quest for a true love left me more adrift than ever.
Steeton are now five points adrift of safety in Division A despite claiming a winning draw at Beckwithshaw.
The string was for making any running repairs if any part of the harness should break or come adrift, the knife to cut the string and to pierce the leather to make the repair; and the shilling in case you needed to use a phone box to call home.
Guiseley remain in third place on 22 points, three behind Bilton and a further seven adrift of Menston.
He was cut adrift from the agency and declared an outlaw. Times, Sunday Times
Palace are three points adrift at the bottom on a run of five defeats, but Dowie insists the league table should be no shock.
The US Coast Guard said at least seven rigs are adrift, while eight refineries have shut down.
Mounds of unfinished mashed potatoes smeared around one with gravy and butter, half eaten biscuit adrift in a sea of peach cobbler.
Maybe they know I don't know and are setting me adrift purposely.
The country will thus be perilously set adrift, possibly towards the war.
The Dons are nine points adrift of safety after battling from behind to secure a point. The Sun
Cold alpine gusts sweep the skyscape, sending the scudding clouds adrift.
The second boat then came adrift, floating down the river ablaze.
Otherwise we will suffer a similar a fate to that experienced by the boatpeople - adrift, unwanted and with nowhere to call home.
Pandosto seizes the infant Fawnia, casts her adrift in an open boat, and tries Bellaria for adultery and treason.
Adrift in a sea of virtual reality?
Several of the lifeboats were still afloat a month after being cast adrift .
He was adrift in an open boat for three days.
A Finnegan's Wake, where an interior monologue becomes the reason for painting adrift, images whose common thread is a diary of my most intimate memories.
This was more for effect than from any defect of vision, for he was as sharp as a needle; and could see a bit of spunyarn adrift or a rope out of place aloft even quicker than the commander, keen-sighted as he was. Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
I nearly suffocated when the pipe on my breathing apparatus came adrift.
Wolves are a point adrift of the play-off places as they attempt to regain top-flight status. Times, Sunday Times
He is 31 seconds adrift but will feel confident of overturning that because the Spaniard is weaker in the race against the clock. Times, Sunday Times
It is the kind of move that makes most London orchestras look like stick-in-the-muds, adrift in the thinking of the last century.
He was adrift, proof that one's personal life is intertwined with the professional.
The crew mutinied soon after leaving Tahiti, casting Bligh and 18 of the crew adrift in a small boat with little food and water.
Well, a day-long hangover after going to a party held by some of the Falmouth Art School's Professional Writing group, in fact, but the general sense of being adrift in a godless void with a very short life expectancy was much the same.
By twelve-thirty he was blasting south on the beltway, music roaring in his ears, his mind adrift on the matter of Paula.
Hearing what he said, I was all adrift.
The young Scot was ostracised by the Italian manager and cut adrift by his club.
To appease the gods, the king put his daughter, Princess Devi, in a boat and cast it adrift.
Wolves, everyone's tip for an instant return to the Nationwide League after they were so ruthlessly taken apart at Ewood on the opening day, are now just three points adrift of Rovers in the table.
But the country, surely, will embrace him, scraggy beard and scowl and whinge and all, without reservation if he cuts 75 years of a dire past adrift and wins the men's singles title. Andy Murray calm before facing Rafael Nadal for a place in the final
I nearly suffocated when the pipe of my breathing apparatus came adrift.
He is wearing a chocolate brown moleskin suit, a dark shirt and tartan clip-on braces, one of which has come adrift.
He ended a broken man, five strokes adrift of his British playing partner.
Going into this game two points adrift of the pacemaking Potters, the Saints pulled out all the stops to win in devastating style.
Da Silva plays a bright, lonely student from New York, adrift in small-town Arizona.
Wasps are currently sixth in the Premiership, two points adrift of the title play-off places, although they made a Heineken Cup pool stage exit last month despite beating holders Toulouse in their final game. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
And despite heading for Kingfield three points adrift of the play-off places, Coleman believes the fixture list means the Reds still hold their destiny in their own hands.
Seemingly marooned in the bottom three, we were nine points adrift of that fourth spot. The Sun
The crew had been cast adrift in a rubber boat Oct.29 and were not rescued until 11 days later.
For these infractions the mutineers put Hudson, his seventeen-year old son, and seven others loyal to the captain on a small boat (known as a shallop) and set them adrift. Spero News
In 1991 Dea Birkett spent four months living among the 38 residents of Pitcairn Island, where Fletcher Christian and other mutineers settled after casting Captain William Bligh adrift from the Bounty in 1789. 2007 May 07 « One-Minute Book Reviews
The law and the free institutions on which the West rightly prides itself grew up in a moral climate created by Christianity, but the technology that is a by-product of Western law and liberty has been cut adrift from the religious and cultural soil that nourished its origin. The Only Way to Save Civilization
The story could easily have run adrift in formulaic silliness. Mistaken identity turns this 'Date Night' into madcap romp
The whole of the window section can be pulled slightly adrift of its moorings and pivoted magically into the boot, which turns out to have a false bottom, like a spy's suitcase.
She untied the rope and set the boat adrift.
Several of the lifeboats were still afloat a month after being cast adrift .
The last tie, the last constraint that bound him to home and a steady, righteous life would be broken; he would go all adrift, be tossed hither and thither on every wave of circumstance -- what he called circumstance -- till Heaven only knew what a total wreck he might speedily become, or in what forlorn and far off seas his ruined life might go down. Mistress and Maid. A Household Story.
Erik fears metamorphosis because he cannot foreknow what he'll become, yet he fears what he has become: adrift and a disappointment to the memory of his students and the effort of his friends. Butterfly, Butterflown
Two or three grave sedate-looking persons shook their heads, and left the inn, hinting, that if Gile Gosling wished to continue to thrive, he should turn his thriftless godless nephew adrift again.
The cheap plastic on the centre console looks downmarket next to the interior fittings of, say, a Ford C-Max, and the footrest came adrift a number of times during my week with the car.
I feel cast adrift from the mother ship that is the Times fashion desk. Times, Sunday Times
But the highlight for me was a thumping take on a buzzer which came adrift after a couple of really powerful lunges.
The point, though, still leaves then nine points adrift of leaders Luton.
The Stags are three points adrift of safety at the bottom with five games left. The Sun
No one would have guessed how alienated I felt, how dislocated, devastated and adrift. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
Princess Highway was another length and three quarters adrift. The Sun
Drawing on that, the director has cast his Don adrift on the stage, breaking out of the boundaries of the traditional set.
The boy stood on the lee side of the poop, and was looking over the side at the wreck of the fore-topgallant mast, which was still attached to the ship by the stay and braces of the yard, the men not yet having time to cut it adrift -- all hands being busy in doing what was possible to save the main-topgallant mast, that had begun to show signs of giving way. The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land
Regardless, the following day, Bradley's body was found in his boat, adrift off the island that now bears his name, Bradley Key.
The boat of refugees was turned adrift by order of the guard.
With Chelsea subsequently defeating Wolves at Molineux, United have fallen four points adrift of the title favourites and desperately need to make up some lost ground quickly. ESPNsoccernet
Which was just as well because the button you'd just attached often came adrift again in a matter of moments. Times, Sunday Times
Dirt Music plunges the reader straight into small-town life in Western Australia, where we find ourselves at once adrift and percussed by the tidal movements of love. Dirt Music: Summary and book reviews of Dirt Music by Tim Winton.
Morgana is imprisoned and Eric loses his hand before being cast adrift in the North Sea.
The lifeboat launched in storm force 10-12 winds to help a stricken yacht, the Dasher, which was adrift with three people on board.
the boat was set adrift
In 2007 the swirl flap came adrift and wrecked the engine and turbo. Times, Sunday Times
What does interest me is the question of feeling "atomised" and being adrift in "anomic campuses. Savitri Erans are more existentially authentic as opposed to the SCIY alarmists
They are not so much cast adrift as up a certain creek without a paddle. The Sun
A tremendous late charge from local ace Tony Skelton put him into second at the expense of Forster, just 0. 17s adrift of Wallbank.
His first escape attempt was thwarted by the thugs as Phillips remained adrift from the aid and cover of the US Navy, which sat restrained by an administration too cowardly to let slip the dogs of war. Redstate's Comedy Stylings
Da Silva plays a bright, lonely student from New York, adrift in small-town Arizona.
More than ever, and never more than at that moment, she found herself cast adrift in a land full of strangers, with strange ways and customs.
Five of them were recovered after four hours adrift by another dive boat and the other two by fishermen.
Hundreds of thousands of people living in refugee camps and towns near the fighting were scattered and set adrift.
It was impossible not to feel involuntarily cast adrift. Times, Sunday Times
This youthful triangle becomes the centre of the story, a generation adrift because their parents, too, have lost their moorings in a suburban sea of affluence and anxious anomie.
She stayed thus, motionless, her meditations adrift in the future; and that which she foreread left her not all sorry nor profoundly glad, for living seemed by this, though scarcely the merry and colorful business which she had esteemed it, yet immeasurably the more worth while. Chivalry
The county has been adrift and buffeted since the break-up of the team of the past decade and now they are gasping for air.
All on its own, with no aid or assistance from either clumsy poet or inquisitive cat, the heavy decorative roller blind at the window had come adrift from its mooring and fallen onto the windowsill.
Despite lying 10th in the league, Leicester's victory over Gloucester last weekend left them only four points adrift of the title play-off zone. WalesOnline - Home
But the Bushrangers are yet to mirror that success in the one-day game with one win and a loss for five points, four behind leader Tasmania and three adrift of Queensland and NSW.
The only thing adrift is budgetary commitment from the former and current President and the lack of an Administrator. Obama Speaks of NASA Being Adrift - NASA Watch
Until that point, the action has centred on two mountaineers who have come adrift from each other after conquering a peak never climbed before (or since - this is a true story).
His Government is adrift dithering and indecisive. The Sun
Still, Britain has cast itself adrift. Times, Sunday Times
The pilot advised us henceforwards to let her run adrift and follow the stream, not busying ourselves with anything, but making much of our carcasses. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
She had been cut adrift from everything she had known.
Their boat had been set adrift.
He is wearing a chocolate brown moleskin suit, a dark shirt and tartan clip-on braces, one of which has come adrift.
The oil spill occurred just as the two-month spawning season began, and the oil poisoned the waters just as fragile eggs and larvae were set adrift in floating sargassum grass, acres upon acres of which were destroyed by oil. Peter Lehner: Congress, the Mabus Report, and Why Gulf Restoration Matters for All of Us
While we played five and lost five in that competition, I think that's a misleading stat because we lost all five tosses, which were crucial, yet were only 30 runs adrift in almost all of the games.
After two rounds, however, he found himself seven strokes adrift of Bobby Clampett, his unheralded American compatriot.
But Neil Emblen levelled to keep Colin Todd's side in 11 th spot, still five points adrift of the play-offs.
One of the turret covers had come adrift and impacted the fin, causing a partial loss of rudder effectiveness.
His boat Brittany Rose was cast adrift, according to the Ocean Rowing Society.
Equity markets - still being fed historic corporate earnings figures and still spooked by the backwash from that affair - remain adrift, unable to find any sustained sense of direction.
But while we were looking, down came the gaff of her mainsail, and the gaff-topsail fell all adrift; a lucky shot had cut her peak halyards. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
Having gained power through this coup d'etat, Antonio then proceeded to 'banish' his brother in such a way as to ensure the death of Prospero and his infant daughter, casting them adrift in an unseaworthy sea vessel with only the supply of food and water provided for them by a kindly old courtier named Gonzalo. Shakespeare
If it came to question, Literature could well afford to send adrift many a pretensive poem, and even book of poems, before it could spare these compositions. Robert Burns as Poet and Person. November Boughs
Like the boats in all these paintings, it's just a hull, without masts or any kind of superstructure, adrift and empty, a kind of ghost ship.
In another slight change in proceedings, last week's audition rounds showed more actual singers and far less emotionally adrift "local eccentrics" chivvied on to be heckled by 4,000 friends. The X Factor: Grace Dent's TV OD
The Times took a few strips from the Mirror (Pogo was one) but cast the others adrift.
The temptation to grow angry and competitive, to choose conflict over conciliation, is growing with each episode the longer the survivors feel cast adrift. Matthew Yglesias » Farley: Human-Cylon Alliance is Impractical and Irresponsible
The South Africans said the conference had gone adrift and they could not endorse the decision to exclude non-blacks.
A boat adrift is a hazard to navigation. Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
It pained me to leave her like this, but - but - I was adrift in a sea of uncertainty.
He was adrift in a moral grey area, sandwiched between his past and an uncertain future.
He was adrift in a moral grey area, sandwiched between his past and an uncertain future.
Mother and son are cast adrift but rescued by Jupiter and, after Perseus has completed his tasks, he kills Acrisius by accident.
The perfect combination of biblical echo and upbeat instruction for a modern society now often adrift without the old anchors of belief. Times, Sunday Times
Based on my previous experience, many customers are adrift.

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