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The mast broke and our ship went adrift.
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We set him adrift.
Set him adrift.
We set him adrift with some of the crew.
But if, after you sail, you were to see a man adrift in a small boat, say five miles offshore, you'd have to pick him up, wouldn't you?
Last time I was adrift, a sea anchor held us up 48 hours in a storm.
There's a piece in here about some people who were adrift in a lifeboat for 80 days.
Aren't I much the same: Lost. adrift?
I tried for radio contact and got nothing so I figured she had to be adrift.
She was adrift.
This may be old stuff, tossing' messages off in bottles and setting' 'em adrift, but I've heard of it workin'.
Well, they had plenty of time on their hands, so they began writing' notes, puttin' 'em in old rum bottles, and setting' 'em adrift.
We've cut the target adrift.
My parents must have been of the poor themselves. For as a baby, I was cast adrift on the Nile, in a reed boat.
In what year were you cast adrift?
Put him in a launch and cast him adrift.
Casting me adrift 3500 miles from a port of call.
You're not leaving them adrift?
If that is so, why did you not join your captain when he was cast adrift?
How men plotted against you, seized your ship cast you adrift in an open boat.
By vote of all, ye are deprived of command. and sentenced under piratical law to be cast adrift in a small boat. without food or water.
We set them adrift.
This may be old stuff. tossing messages in bottles and setting' 'em adrift. but I've heard of it workin'.
Well, they had plenty of time on their hands, so they began writing' notes, puttin' 'em in old rum bottles and setting' 'em adrift.
Captain Ahab, have you seen a whaleboat adrift?
You'll set the whole boat adrift.
A seafarer coming ashore in any U.S. port, no longer needs to feel cut adrift, as many once did.
It was a cruel thing, Bart. to set a poor, defenseless creature adrift in a strange port.
Pass me adrift at the mercy of savage Indians?
If you don't get movin', I'll cast you adrift.
My father was set adrift here.
Sentiments adrift.
And he cast you adrift.
Sort of sets you adrift.
Well, mes enfants, you are like me, adrift in Berlin. I think it's my duty to corrupt you. Agreed?
They can't be eight hours adrift.
News and current affairs
Iran's mood changed by the time America's entire Middle East strategy had gone adrift, but the grand bargain remains the only viable way out of the impasse.
Even those who have jobs fear that they could lose them and be cast adrift.
Countries like Haiti and the Dominican Republic found themselves adrift, with uneducated populations barely surviving on subsistence agriculture.
The financial costs of patrolling its waters and rescuing those adrift are exorbitant.
For it is in no European country's interest, or in the interest of the EU as a whole, that Central and Eastern Europe feel that they have been cast adrift or that Germany and Russia fixate on each other in this time of crisis.
In the US, polarized politics, gerrymandered Congressional districts, and a constitution that seems to check more than it balances, have obstructed reforms and left the country seemingly adrift in choppy waters.