The phrase "adrift off" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts discussing being lost or aimless, particularly in relation to being at sea or in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The boat was adrift off the coast, with no clear direction in sight."
Alternatives: "adrift at sea" or "lost offshore."
The grand old dame Hertha are showing signs of life, meanwhile: they won 3-0 away to Freiburg and are now only four points adrift off safety.
An 18th defeat of the season leaves QPR three points adrift off safety in the bottom three and with just one win from the last 11 games.
As the ship floats adrift off the coast of Mexico, military helicopters are ferrying in emergency shipments of food and supplies.
In 1961, Stephen Hesse, the son of an American oil titan, finds himself adrift off the coast of Irian Jaya, in the path of a monsoon.
Despite a slight upturn in performances under Hiddink – the Blues remain unbeaten since Jose Mourinho's dismissal in December of last year – Chelsea remain 17 points adrift off the top four with the chances of Champions League looking increasingly unlikely.
Officials have suggested the boats have come from North Korea, after Korean lettering was found on the hull of one of the boats containing 10 decomposing bodies, found adrift off the city of Wajima, west Japan on 20 November.
In "Zero Conditional," a third-grade portable classroom serves as the sinister new workplace for an adrift, off-kilter woman named Eril.
Many are adrift, cut off from their social foundations.
Susac is just 20 minutes by boat from the large island of Korcula — "close enough to go for an ice cream," Mr. Gordan joked — yet feels totally adrift, cut off, remote.
Soon we'll be adrift, cut off from the continent, a miserable island of bitterness and misery.
During that time the lambs will be standing in a troubled huddle in the trailer, completely adrift, cut off from their familiar routine.
