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Usage examples of "be adrift".
Please don't take my due north away, because then I will be adrift, lost in a land where the things I have done and the things I haven't done really mean something.
He heard enough nothing to suggest that he might be adrift in the vacuum of deep space, and as he began to wonder if he had gone deaf, he decided that Kenny must be no less patient than he was full-on psychotic.
To be gullible was to be adrift on the world's sea at the mercy of tide and current.
No matter what happened, they were going to be adrift for many months before aid reached them, even for simple abandonment and scuttling of the ship.
If that happened, our guide line would snap and we would be adrift—.