Examples of adrift

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
She had not broken her anchor; someone had boarded her, cut away her anchors and cable, and set her adrift.
The result is that, on some pages, the reader is cast adrift on a sea of grey print without any of the usual navigational aids.
If weights were seriously adrift, plant management were informed so that corrective action could be taken.
Without this context, we are adrift in the period, unable to grasp why these views developed when and where they did.
He was pretty well adrift from realities at that time.
The ferocious-looking spines, which seem almost too large for the central animal, are mostly attached, but one or two have come adrift.
Where he comes seriously adrift, however, is in tackling the practical and ethical issues that arise from this uniquely far-reaching area of research.
The parties to the case may not even be talking to each other any more; goals have gone adrift.
Post-modernist thought tells us that all truths are socially constructed and leaves us adrift in a sea of relativism.
One catcher was detailed to follow astern in case any of the whales broke adrift.
Choices and opportunities are cut adrift as the wedge of agism is hammered into place (on one's 65-year birthday, for example).
To take on the burden of determining who we are and what we will be is to feel inescapably alien and adrift in a profound sense.
They were, so to speak, cast adrift.
The individual was cut adrift.
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