Aimless

Usage examples of adrift.

Purple Rocks, taking the bodies back to the coast in Ruathen barrels, putting them on a caravel set adrift in the known path of the Waterdhavian hunting vessel.

Ibn and Fyodor in their smaller boat caught sight of the adrift sailors.

For the first time, the adrift and restless drow felt a tendril of herself reach out and take root in this strange land.

Centaur, and I have lost my Napoli, and I cannot imagine a better description of cut moorings and being adrift than that.

It was there by virtue of its selfness, adrift in the same waxen pale as himself.

They were feeling loose and adrift, growing slowly mad, their minds degenerating.

He browsed, barely thinking, for days, his mind adrift in a place halfway between dreaming and wakefulness.

Seemed like our little bit of land had been uprooted and had gone adrift, far out to sea.

Pavilion Key climbed a tree with her baby and was compelled to let it go adrift from her arms.

Right now, my twin lies to the Council, saying that you threw me into the ocean and that I am adrift at sea, clinging to a bit of wood.

Some hours after midnight, the Typhoon abated so much, that through the strenuous exertions of Starbuck and Stubb-- one engaged forward and the other aft--the shivered remnants of the jib and fore and main-top-sails were cut adrift from the spars, and went eddying away to leeward, like the feathers of an albatross, which sometimes are cast to the winds when that storm-tossed bird is on the wing.

It was with a sudden shock that the boy realized he was adrift in space.

At first they tried to hail it, thinking it was Bobber, but then realized it was just the dinghy they had set adrift.

Ridiculous rumors whispered across a café table and set adrift in the clouded brain of a Turkish policeman lazily puffing hashish, dimly trying to focus his eyes on the crotch of a serving-boy across the way.

Perhaps his mother in heaven was praying her heart out to the Blessed Virgin to watch over her fatherless darling cast adrift upon the world!