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Example sentences for: adrift
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The Didion protagonist is a woman adrift in history, her own and America's.
With their party intellectually adrift, the appeal of this style of content-free, Oprah-fied populism continues to grow for them.
In London, the Financial Times said, "Failure, or a feeble political fudge, would leave the global trade system dangerously adrift."
The first, Nautical Prepositions, includes aback, abeam, about, abox, a-cockbill, adrift, and other words that are adverbs, not prepositions, along with ahoy and a few others beginning with a -: evidently the author believes that many nautical words beginning with a- are prepositions, which is simply not the case.
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.