adrift's Usage Examples:

" Any lumber that has dropped overboard or any rigging that has gone adrift is recovered by its means.

The ship reports that they have been attacked, are on fire and adrift.

The fire was extinguished, but the engines failed and the ship was adrift and awaiting a rescue when a storm arose.

That night, the mystery ship is again sighted, dark and apparently adrift.

Kendall moved to Greek side Ethnikos Piraeus, but was sacked in March 1999 after only four months in charge and with the club eight points adrift at the bottom of the Greek First Division.

Writing for AllMusic, critic Dave Thompson said, A flagrant departure from even the most extreme expectations, Cast of Thousands not only cast the band adrift from the new wave mainstream, but it would also alienate all but the most adaptable of the band's following.

(including Bligh) were set adrift in the ship"s launch, while 25, a mixture of mutineers and detainees, remained on board under Fletcher Christian.

each landscape painting around a horizon line; but for that, we could be adrift in the cosmos.

There is also a popular legend about Visayan fishermen who went adrift on a stormy day at the mouth of today's Surigao River.

Premier Division, with just eight points – seventeen points adrift of the penultimately placed Bnei Sakhnin.

Our wheelsman well-trained he espied clear through the misty haze, Those poor exhausted fishermen adrift so many.

Soon, however, she had to weigh anchor in an effort to avoid all the vessels adrift in the anchorage.

ghostly vessel, such as the Flying Dutchman, or a physical derelict found adrift with its crew missing or dead, like the Mary Celeste.

Synonyms:

afloat,

Antonyms:

meaningful, aground,