Sentence examples for adrift much of from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, they have cut adrift much of the deadwood that weighed them down for so long.

As the era of the space shuttle winds down — two, perhaps three shuttle flights remain — a clash of visions over what should come next has kept the space agency adrift for much of the past year.

In their early 30s, both are adrift, not doing much of anything with their lives other than dating unavailable men.

Atlantic City's casinos were open, but the boardwalk was adrift in snow, and much of the city was shut down.

Japan's economy has been adrift for so long that much of the world takes for granted that it cannot, or at least will not, ever be reformed.

Relegation looms St Mirren and Hamilton were adrift at the bottom for much of last season, with the latter eventually dropping into the First Division.

A gouache on paper, it was done shortly after the wedding of her daughter, Scottie--a time that, Zelda wrote to a friend, "brought back the excitement of those days twenty years ago when there was so much of everything adrift on the micaed spring time and so many aspirations afloat on the lethal twilights that one's greatest concern was which taxi to take and which magazine to sell to".

Poland's Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Rabo Liv) was second, with Sweden's Emma Johansson (Wiggle High5) 10 seconds further adrift after the 121km race, much of which takes place on gravel roads.

By Friday, we had two new movies to divert our anxious minds: Michael Mann's "Collateral," in which a taxi driver is terrorized by a suave, vicious hit man (so much for work) and Chris Kentis's "Open Water," in which two blond scuba divers spend much of their vacation adrift in the company of hungry sharks (so much for leisure).

Dispensing with too many of them, the movie left the Nicholson character adrift, making his violent outbursts simply puzzling much of the time.

Adrift at home for 4 months, he devoted much of his time to his case.