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Sentence Examples Going into this game two points adrift of the pacemaking Potters, the Saints pulled out all the stops to win in devastating style. The patrol boat towed the craft to deep water where it was cleared of environmentally unfriendly products and then set adrift. Gronholm recovered one place to take sixth place overnight but he is still almost a minute adrift of Martin. The droids are hard at work trying to fix that voodoo machine but, in the meantime, we are stuck adrift in space and not sure where we are. He then struck a penalty but Yarnbury were still 15 points adrift at the break, and seemed down and out. After several days adrift in a lifeboat, some of the crew find the ship miraculously still afloat. The lifeboat launched in storm force 10-12 winds to help a stricken yacht, the Dasher, which was adrift with three people on board. The US Coast Guard said at least seven rigs are adrift, while eight refineries have shut down. It is the kind of move that makes most London orchestras look like stick-in-the-muds, adrift in the thinking of the last century. His life was spared because his daughter Hypsipyle set him adrift in an oarless boat. The South Africans said the conference had gone adrift and they could not endorse the decision to exclude non-blacks. You have the picture of a party that is rudderless and adrift, with no clear-cut strategies of providing principled opposition on issues. Palace are three points adrift at the bottom on a run of five defeats, but Dowie insists the league table should be no shock. For years now, mentally ill people have been adrift in society, often begging, sometimes having fugues, often having run-ins with the police. By twelve-thirty he was blasting south on the beltway, music roaring in his ears, his mind adrift on the matter of Paula. By the end of the second session, the 2002 world champion was four frames adrift of his opponent. After looking set to fade, Caradak got a second wind and ran on again for third, finishing a length adrift. The story goes, after discovering a passenger ship missing since 1953 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. But, not for the first time, he didn't find a lot off the bridle and was a length adrift at the line. The young Scot was ostracised by the Italian manager and cut adrift by his club. Show More Sentences For example, maybe you're going out to a spreader tip to foozle on some baggywrinkle that's come adrift. Drawing on that, the director has cast his Don adrift on the stage, breaking out of the boundaries of the traditional set. Sullivan suddenly finds himself adrift in a twilight world where his life, sanity and personal identity are all at risk. Mounds of unfinished mashed potatoes smeared around one with gravy and butter, half eaten biscuit adrift in a sea of peach cobbler. Regardless, the following day, Bradley's body was found in his boat, adrift off the island that now bears his name, Bradley Key. Both are about a teenage boy adrift in a boat with a tiger after a shipwreck. To appease the gods, the king put his daughter, Princess Devi, in a boat and cast it adrift. Morgana is imprisoned and Eric loses his hand before being cast adrift in the North Sea. We were adrift in the Atlantic, the boat moving only with the rocking of the waves and when the rare puff of wind blew through our sails. No matter what subject they tackle they rarely run adrift into cliches, and always manage to throw in some humour. Five of them were recovered after four hours adrift by another dive boat and the other two by fishermen. The crew had been cast adrift in a rubber boat Oct.29 and were not rescued until 11 days later. It is easy to forget that prior to the terrorist attacks, the president appeared purposeless and adrift. In 1881, the schooner Ellen Austin, bound for London, discovered a derelict adrift in the Sargasso. The skipper and another person jumped into the water as someone cut the lines to the boat, setting it adrift in a 10-knot breeze. His boat Brittany Rose was cast adrift, according to the Ocean Rowing Society. Australian authorities have found no signs of foul play aboard a Taiwanese fishing boat found adrift and abandoned off western Australia. The county has been adrift and buffeted since the break-up of the team of the past decade and now they are gasping for air. Mother and son are cast adrift but rescued by Jupiter and, after Perseus has completed his tasks, he kills Acrisius by accident. The crew mutinied soon after leaving Tahiti, casting Bligh and 18 of the crew adrift in a small boat with little food and water. Show More Sentences Pandosto seizes the infant Fawnia, casts her adrift in an open boat, and tries Bellaria for adultery and treason. Indeed, the vendetta seems aimed at the community also, for it has seen a deer fence cut and boats set adrift. He was adrift, proof that one's personal life is intertwined with the professional. Even if they are five miles an hour adrift, the defendant was still doing forty miles an hour. More than ever, and never more than at that moment, she found herself cast adrift in a land full of strangers, with strange ways and customs. Motorbikes and scooters too are also best given a miss, because their vibrations can cause the leads to come adrift. One of the turret covers had come adrift and impacted the fin, causing a partial loss of rudder effectiveness. He is wearing a chocolate brown moleskin suit, a dark shirt and tartan clip-on braces, one of which has come adrift. A fixing had come adrift, freeing about seven or eight feet of the bamboo screening. Inactive and irresolute, she has been adrift for months now, personally and professionally. Second-bottom Ilkley are a point behind Calverley and a further two adrift of Knaresborough, who claimed a crucial win at bottom club Skipton. Guiseley remain in third place on 22 points, three behind Bilton and a further seven adrift of Menston. Gomersal are still ten points adrift of Yeadon, who had the better of their drawn home match against Farsley. Until that point, the action has centred on two mountaineers who have come adrift from each other after conquering a peak never climbed before. Skipton are seven points adrift of safety after going down to a Knaresborough side in which Mike Baxendall continued his wicket taking. After two rounds, however, he found himself seven strokes adrift of Bobby Clampett, his unheralded American compatriot. Steeton are now five points adrift of safety in Division A despite claiming a winning draw at Beckwithshaw. Silsden now have 34 points, two behind Thackley and a further two adrift of Harden. In support of your point, it can be bad for the economy to have policy adrift at an inflection point. But Neil Emblen levelled to keep Colin Todd's side in 11 th spot, still five points adrift of the play-offs. Show More Sentences The result has seen them gain ground on rivals Spain and France but they are still well adrift of leaders Brazil. However, Gary Greenwood led the fight-back with an unbeaten 39 only to run out of partners with Thackley just two runs adrift of forcing a tie. A tremendous late charge from local ace Tony Skelton put him into second at the expense of Forster, just 0. 17s adrift of Wallbank. Rawdon's surge in form means second-bottom Menston are now five points adrift of safety and tomorrow face a tough trip to Guiseley. As Mr Fowles again points out, we find ourselves adrift on a raft, in a silent, unyielding universe, dominated by hazard and infinitude. Like the boats in all these paintings, it's just a hull, without masts or any kind of superstructure, adrift and empty, a kind of ghost ship. I'm no expert when it comes to sailing, but I'm told a boat is adrift when it fails to tack to the wind, is overloaded on one side, or is untethered from its anchor. The reason Price of Fame ultimately becomes tiresome is our increasing awareness of how adrift the woman at its center is. On the sixth day adrift on the waves, four refugees died and their bodies were tossed overboard. Greenspan comes across as an adrift theoretician, an aficionado of models with no relevance to the real world. We are helplessly adrift and our current location is unknown. The second boat then came adrift, floating down the river ablaze. Tragically, his boat was later found adrift, no sign of him on board, and in a filthy cabin were the insane diary entries of one who had clearly lost his mind. They were discovered on board by the crew and cast adrift on a life raft. If adults are so adrift, what can they offer their children? Without that win, England would be third in the qualifying group, two points adrift of Slovakia and five behind Turkey with the visit to Istanbul still to come. He ended a broken man, five strokes adrift of his British playing partner. And despite heading for Kingfield three points adrift of the play-off places, Coleman believes the fixture list means the Reds still hold their destiny in their own hands. The point, though, still leaves then nine points adrift of leaders Luton. They are in second place, only 11 points adrift of Surrey, but fourth-placed Leicestershire could also come into the reckoning if they defeat Yorkshire. Show More Sentences Married to a woman who spends most of their long-distance calls wittering on about what colour carpet to get for his study, Bob is adrift in a sea of loneliness and isolation. Once we were discussing Lifeboat, a Hitchcock film that takes place almost entirely in a small boat adrift at sea. This sell-off speaks to the continuing anxiety that a world not led by the United States and Europe and Japan is a world adrift. Miraculously at midnight in the pitch dark a tugboat crew that had heard the broadcast found Hunter adrift in the shipping lanes and picked him up unhurt. This Laois team hurled with pride, passion, great commitment and no little skill and certainly did not deserve to be nine points adrift at the end. Dillon chose to cast himself in the lead, playing a con man in limbo, set adrift when his criminal father figure skips the U.S. to escape the long arm of the law. Ten points adrift in the first half, Palace had closed the deficit to five at the half, but with nine minutes to play found themselves eight points in arrears again. Cold alpine gusts sweep the skyscape, sending the scudding clouds adrift. Made from moose leather with rawhide bindings crisscrossing around the calf they looked like something Shackleton would have improvised adrift on the ice-floes. Maybe they know I don't know and are setting me adrift purposely. His life raft was attacked by sharks and shot at by Japanese aircraft during 47 days adrift at sea. Her pod was adrift in space when she felt a tractor beam take hold of her. Amer Sports One, skippered by Grant Dalton, lay just 40 miles adrift. Just this week, oracle CEO Larry Ellison said Apple was adrift without Steve Jobs. I am convinced a quiet approach, adrift on the breeze or under electric trolling power, encourages fish to continue feeding and results in more strikes. The 14 per cent Protestant community in the South at the time of partition was not just abandoned by Britain, it was also cut adrift politically by Northern Unionism. He is perilously adrift from the way others are starting to perceive him. Out of the cool boxes would flow wine, beer and soft drinks, followed by a feast served on leaf platters, which we'd cast adrift when we'd finished. He drove the mare ahead inside the furlong pole, getting first run on Peineve, who finished with a flourish, but was still a neck adrift at the line. When he retires at the age of 65, he is bereft, a man adrift, but he sweetly embraces his new life with all the gaucheness of a teenager on a gap year. Show More Sentences The Times took a few strips from the Mirror but cast the others adrift. Suddenly she is cast adrift without the bank of mum and dad. Rootless and adrift in its wetland habitat, the humped bladderwort preys on water fleas and other small invertebrates. He had turned her adrift, neither a wife, widow, nor maid, and here she was, one of the most estimably lovable and noble women I have ever met. They set Hudson and his teenage son John, along with seven sick, infirm, or loyal crewmen, adrift in a small open boat. On the 9 March 2017 Westley and Maamria were sacked with Newport 11 points adrift at the bottom of League Two. The petrol tank filler came adrift as they neared the Adriatic coast and drenched them both. Shawbury stay fourth but remain a huge distance adrift of leaders Sporting Khalsa who continue to steam roller their way towards the title. Stockport, who were promoted last season, sit adrift at the bottom of the league table and are almost certain to return back to National Three. This earthquake was an earthstorm. Hills were waves, and houses cast adrift were wrecked on them. A loving pig is yanked over the pine barrens, past Shinnecock, Conscience Point, then adrift over the shipless Atlantic. He did well, coming second, but Toyota and Mitsubishi were now neck-and-neck, with the Subaru team 38 points adrift of the leaders. The third home, Jane's Rug Rat, was a further 50 lengths adrift in the four-runner race. Sale had the game wrapped up by half-time after tries from Mark Cueto, Mark Taylor and Oriol Ripol left Irish 17 points adrift. It was a terrific race to watch and in all truth Bondi Beach had plenty of time to get past Simple Verse but was still a head adrift at the line. After wintering in the James Bay, Hudson tried to press on with his voyage in the spring of 1611, but his crew mutinied and they cast him adrift. Let's find those old grinches who hoard and who stow, And find those unserviceables adrift like the snow. A string of wash outs and cup diversions have left them back in sixth and 19 points adrift of Guisborough but with five games in hand. Consumerism breeds the dystopic world of runaway pollution, of vast floating continents of garbage adrift in our oceans. And so has been the entire administrative leviathan, which seems adrift chaotically and anarchically, with no set direction in sight. Show More Sentences Becky Thomas is with around 1,000 passengers and crew on the Costa Allegra, which was left adrift in the Indian Ocean following an on board fire. Allen Crags stands adrift from the main ridge, with the valleys of Langstrath and Grains Gill falling on either side. In 1775, the whaler Herald found the Octavius adrift near Greenland with the bodies of her crew frozen below decks. Williams had a problem fitting his left rear tyre and that left Alonso only 3.1secs adrift when he rejoined from his final stop three laps later. Lucifer, which is Latin for light-bearer, is a wash of stony Casio soul flourishes and vibey Parisian coos, set adrift on dank, bass-reverb bliss. The Mets were once the clipper ship of baseball, but a demoralizing 4-8 run against the American League East has left them adrift in the horse latitudes. Lewis had missed from long range to force a play-off and had to settle for a closing 69, with Spain's Carlota Ciganda a distant third, seven shots adrift. Ice Point, who is out of an El Gran Senor mare, won the Polla de Potrillos by four lengths from Insociable, with Lac Azur a further three lengths adrift in third. Brendan Rodgers's team moved into the top 10 in the Premier League table, but they are nine points adrift of West Ham in fourth place, while Arsenal are sixth. They were 3-0 down inside 20 minutes and, although Tom Morgay clawed one back from a swift counter-attack, shipped two more to go into the interval 5-1 adrift. It's now 14 days in the open boat, Salt sore eyes and dry parched throat, Hard tack rations now running so low, Our sail is adrift, we are too weak to row. Scientists at America's University of Wisconsin believe it will soon be adrift and could begin to head towards some of the world's busiest shipping lanes. After seven consecutive losses they found themselves marooned at the foot of the table, 5 points adrift, but ironically with the second best defence in the league. Becky Thomas is stuck with around 1,000 passengers and crew on the Costa Allegra, which was left adrift in the Indian Ocean following an onboard fire. Runner-up Midas Touch ran a stout race for the Ballydoyle team, but was no match for the winner, while the gallant Corsica was another nose adrift. Examples from Classical Literature No sooner had they landed than Dmitri ordered all the boats to be cast adrift. She was a brave girl, and to be cast adrift on the world did not terrify her much. Besides that, he killed or wounded near a score of chinampa owners, and set their canoes adrift. But we were afraid to lose sight of the bridge, lest we should get all adrift. A shove sent the boat adrift, and the oarsman plied it rapidly toward the pilon. Then she introduced her daughter to Drake and sent them adrift through the rooms. I feared, if you found out who I was, you would expose me, and I should be cast adrift. Have a civil tongue, then, and don't provoke me to turn you adrift on the world. Believe me, you don't until you have been cast adrift in it with empty pockets. He obeyed the order with reluctance, and soon after the boat was cast adrift. Here she sat, in the little enclosure of this upper room above a shopful of strange Delikatessen, securely adrift. What ship did you sail in, what has come of her, and how came you to be cast adrift? If I cut adrift in a squall, I stand a pretty fair chance not to see you again. Plainly in his mind they perceived how he had been cast adrift in the emptiness of the void. A topsy-turvy continent adrift among the gales of newspeak, under the gaze of a million grey bureaucrats passing for big brothers. But here he was as a mariner adrift in midocean, in a rudderless ship, without sails or compass. Give the whelp a couple of half-crowns, Halkett, and send him adrift. I never was more completely adrift, in my life, ashore or afloat. With oars apeak, and paddles down, the sheets of their sails adrift, the three boats now stilly floated, awaiting Moby Dick's reappearance. Two waifs adrift in a storm, peering into a bakery window at the cookies. Show More Sentences Before Christmas, mannequins in pale padded creations were set adrift in an Arctic wasteland. Miss Havisham's grey hair was all adrift upon the ground, among the other bridal wrecks, and was a miserable sight to see. This was to slip out under cover of the night, cut the HISPANIOLA adrift, and let her go ashore where she fancied. You cannot escape from this clearing, for I have cast adrift your canoe. He is not consulted as to when he shall be employed or when cast adrift. My mother was then disrespectfully helped in and we were sent adrift. Its tremendous intensity robbed it of all direction and left me adrift in the big black-and-white hall as on a silent sea. For men adrift the blaze of it fries them like fish on a grid. Hudson and several crew members were set adrift in a shallop and never seen again. Dam bu'st an' flooded her, an' the houses struck adrift an' bumped into each other an' sunk. Addwaitya was a short head behind in third place while Doc Holiday was fourth another one-and-one-fourth-length adrift. Bluff Harry broke into the spence And turn'd the cowls adrift. They were adrift on the ice floe, which was steadily taking them seaward. She stars as a shy young woman adrift in New York who is spotted by a boozy, down-at-heel talent scout. Southampton, five points adrift of fourth place, still need one more point for that club record and, as Delilah might say, they still have to break down the door. Was it because when he had died, she still had had Martin, demanding, vital, to goad her on and give the semblance of a point to her life, and now she was left alone, adrift? Goosen and Sterne are well adrift of halfway pacesetter David Drysdale, but the South African aces are only just outside the top 20 and within striking distance. I had been with them five years, and old Coxon gave me a ripping good testimonial when the smash came, but of course we clerks were all turned adrift, the twenty-seven of us. In Hepzibah's mind, there was the wretched consciousness of being adrift. Kicking three lengths clear, he held off the late thrust of Longridge by three-quarters of a length, with Morbidezza a further length and a quarter adrift in third. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of adrift? Words that rhyme with adrift What is the adverb for adrift? What is the adjective for adrift? What is the noun for adrift? Translations for adrift Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Adrienne Adriatic Adrianople Adriana Adrian adriamycin adroit Adroit adroitly adroitness adry ads 6-letter Words Starting With a ad adr adri adrif