Be in motion due to some air or water current.
1 In these waters she could be adrift for months, years even.'
2 These days, nobody has to be adrift in the the world of entertainment.
3 Without you I seem to be adrift , without rudder or compass.
4 And how can we be adrift , when we haven't weighed anchor?
5 Everything will be adrift , and you would be crushed to death, to a certainty.
6 I'll be adrift - gambling ,drinking ,yawningabout and going to pieces.
7 We would be adrift in the continental world.
8 The United Nations estimates around 2,000 may still be adrift at sea.
9 The United Nations estimates around 2,000 migrants may still be adrift .
10 Certainly he seemed at home in England, while I seemed to be adrift , alone in an arctic ocean.
11 Magiere would be adrift without purpose.
12 Then you would be adrift again.
13 At half-past 3 perceived one of the Investigator's boats to be adrift , bore away to pick her up.
14 But then it seemed such an awful thing for this young and headstrong creature to be adrift on the wide world.
15 It was unbearable to him that this young girl should be adrift , friendless, and apparently a victim to some terrible fear.
16 The Arakan Project, a group advocating for the rights of Muslim Rohingya said as many as 8000 other people may be adrift .
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