How to Use adrift in a Sentence

adrift

adverb or adjective

• Tiger Woods is in a share of third, two strokes adrift.
  — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 7 Dec. 2019
• Part of that may be due to the fact they're not just set adrift in the workplace all alone.
  — CBS News, 11 Feb. 2018
• William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in a launch in the South Pacific.
  — baltimoresun.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• The towline snapped and the bow section of the New Carissa was again adrift at sea.
  — oregonlive, 4 Feb. 2020
• Mary Locke died in 1922, leaving Alain crushed and adrift.
  — Tobi Haslett, The New Yorker, 11 May 2018
• Woman drowns in front of six kids left adrift in Lake Tahoe.
  — Anna Buchmann, SFChronicle.com, 12 Oct. 2020
• We are left adrift, as if waiting to find that safe spot of dry land.
  — Jose Solís, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2020
• It will be cast adrift into the silent blackness of space.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 Oct. 2018
• Many Egyptians felt their country was adrift, led by an old man who was not up to the job.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• Combined with this place called Open Source, that had kind of had been a little bit adrift maybe.
  — CBS News, 1 Jan. 2020
• Instead, there could be 50 billion rogue planets are adrift in the Milky Way.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2019
• But anyone looking for a place to complain was left adrift.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2020
• Like a planet unmoored from its star, your post-breakup self can feel out-of-orbit and adrift in space.
  — Markham Heid, Time, 20 Sep. 2017
• Small firms that relied on WhatsApp to stay in touch with customers would be cast adrift.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• That program is adrift at sea, set to play one more season in the AAC and explore three options.
  — Mike Anthony, courant.com, 24 June 2019
• While daughters flocked to nursing, a job that couldn’t move overseas, sons seemed adrift.
  — Written By Farah Stockman; Photographs By Alyssa Schukar, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2017
• Grown women who’d been cast adrift on oceans of post-boom cocktail wear hailed her as a savior.
  — Sarah Mower, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2017
• On July 14, a storm broke the moorings on Aldi’s rompong, setting him adrift.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 24 Sep. 2018
• Charles, adrift, is in need of love; Philip, denied that himself, has only tough love to offer.
  — Anna Silman, The Cut, 20 Dec. 2017
• Their lukewarm season began adrift, with eight losses in 11 games on the West Coast.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2019
• The Saints' rudderless ship left adrift in Lake Pontchartrain at the season's onset will again head up to the state of a thousand lakes.
  — Larry Holder, NOLA.com, 12 Jan. 2018
• Meanwhile, a string of departures at the highest level of the agency has left it adrift.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 5 May 2018
• Tan, who wrote the screenplay for the original Shirkers and starred in it, was left adrift, angry and confused.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 26 Oct. 2018
• One year after it was set adrift off the North Carolina coast, a boy’s message in a bottle has been found in France.
  — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 11 Oct. 2017
• In three attacks, coalition forces did not attempt to rescue survivors adrift at sea, and many drowned, the group said.
  — Missy Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• Roberts, working with a much larger scenic and visual palette this time, seems adrift.
  — Katie Walsh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2019
• Yes, India’s fifth-largest private-sector lender, can’t be left adrift much longer.
  — Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2019
• But engaging young men who have been left adrift has proven to be challenging work.
  — Jessica Anderson, baltimoresun.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• But most of the ships lost, carrying more than 4,000 men, were adrift farther out at sea, and went down in a storm that came up in the afternoon of the battle.
  — Mark Munn, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2020
• Off Yemen, bomb-laden drone boats and mines set adrift by Yemen's Houthi rebels have damaged vessels amid that country's yearslong war.
  — Jon Gambrell, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024