Sentence examples for adrift there from inspiring English sources

The islanders were 18 adrift there was to be no way back, on their head coach Harvey Biljon's return to face his former club.

While the Japanese economy may have seemed stubbornly adrift, there was scant feeling of crisis.

But while Villarreal continue to play beautifully and are just four points adrift, there are worrying signs as they embark upon their climb.

But if the sun's insomniac meanderings left me feeling disoriented and somewhat adrift, there was plenty of ballast to be found in the dining room, where meals of baronial excess were routinely served up.

A railway accident gives Brendan his perfect out, and now he is dead and permanently adrift, out there hunting for Valparaiso in every shitty bar and gambling den that Europe has to offer.

An artist friend of mine recently lamented that he felt the art world was adrift because there were no longer great critics like Harold Rosenberg and Clement Greenberg to provide theories of art that could fructify the art and energize it.

At any given time around 10% of 16- and 17-year-olds are not working, training or studying, and 1% spend a year or more in this unproductive state.Lord Layard, a member of the Lords committee, thinks that so many teenagers end up adrift because there is no clear, attractive route for non-academic youngsters to take.

The people who helped build this are our fans and the heart of our fan base is in San Mateo County and Santa Clara County, so all of the people who bought charter seats and bought sponsorships and bought suites, their loyalty to the Giants would be adrift if there were a competing stadium in San Jose".

What particularly resonates with Ishiguro is the idea of a man somehow adrift from history: "There's a real sense that there's a whole world travelling there in that man … he's out of time, somebody who belongs to a more violent world.

At 238 for five, England are adrift by 75 runs so there is much work still to do but they are well and truly in the game now.

Re "In Chaos, Palestinians Struggle for a Way Out" ("A People Adrift" series, front page, July 15): There is a way out: Stop encouraging terrorists; stop cheering when babies are murdered or school buses are blown up.