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Example sentences for: adrift

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There are the obvious examples— come adrift, go overboard (about something), get under way , even skyscraper —but there are far more common words and expressions that have a far more subtle, less direct connection with maritime affairs, some of which I shall come to.
The Didion protagonist is a woman adrift in history, her own and America's.
--a woman adrift in history, her own and America's.
The baby Moses, his existence endangered by the pharaoh's edict calling for all Hebrew sons to be slain, is set adrift in a basket on the Nile before being discovered--and adopted--by one of the pharaoh's wives.
In London, the Financial Times said, "Failure, or a feeble political fudge, would leave the global trade system dangerously adrift."