Sentence examples for a year adrift from inspiring English sources

José Salvador Alvarenga has surprised doctors with his good physical condition, though they caution that the famed castaway is psychologically fragile as he recovers from what he has described as more than a year adrift at sea surviving on raw fish, turtles and bird blood.

While castaway José Salvador Alvarenga's claim to have survived more than a year adrift in the Pacific in 22-foot fibreglass boat before washing up on Ebon in the Marshall Islands last week still fails to convince many, accounts from Mexico suggest that at least some of his story adds up.

In a world of ubiquitous mobile phones and CCTV, it seems barely possible that a man such as José Salvador Alvarenga, a Mexican fisherman rescued this week after washing ashore on the Marshall Islands, could survive for more than a year adrift on the Pacific.

A castaway from El Salvador who claims he spent more than a year adrift in the Pacific has begun his journey home.

A castaway, who says he spent more than a year adrift in the Pacific, has asked to be taken home, after washing ashore in the Marshall Islands.

Michael Hutchinson is the author of Hello Sailor: A Year Spent Adrift and All at Sea (Yellow Jersey).

An American tech-journalist called Paul Miller, for example, is halfway through a year cut adrift, one early report of which found him in the midst of an evening when "he had an unusually long conversation with his roommate and" – get this – "listened to some records".

After a few years adrift in Johannesburg's club scene, he became a regular churchgoer and -- perhaps more important -- a versatile member of the church band, often filling in for whatever musician didn't show up.

After years adrift without a connection to my own body or that of a lover, I sought out and joined a renegade underground culture of rebels and fighters: the LGBT community of the 1990s, built on the backs of revolutionaries, many of whom were still alive at the time.

LA's Museum of Contemporary Art, after years adrift, is plotting a new future with a new French director, the studious Philippe Vergne.

In 2003, predictions that the toys would soon make landfall on the coast of New England after eleven years adrift had provoked a flurry of news items, one of which a student of mine had stumbled on.