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Example sentences for: adrift

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Captain Bligh," which rhymes in his mind with the ebb and flow of Caribbean tyranny and freedom: "The ribbed body with its cargo/ stalls in its doldrums, the God-captain is cast adrift/ by a mutinous Christian."
The Didion protagonist is 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."
With their party intellectually adrift, the appeal of this style of content-free, Oprah-fied populism continues to grow for them.