Example sentences for: adrift

How can you use “adrift” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • --a woman adrift in history, her own and America's.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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."


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