The phrase "adrift within" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a state of being lost or aimless within a particular context or environment.
Example: "After the sudden loss of her job, she felt adrift within the chaos of her life."
Alternatives: "lost in" or "floating in".
He's confused by LA and adrift within his own celebrity.
For a time then, McCain, adrift within his own party, was almost certainly the most popular politician in America.
Stanistreet alleged that in this particular case "victims of proven sexism and bullying have been cast adrift within the BBC while the perpetrator keeps his job".
Adrift within a light coma, she had come to feel, she writes, that "the organization of time seemed less linear and more spatial".
Men in Space follows a gaggle of characters set adrift within a fragmenting world: a stranded cosmonaut who has no country to come back to, a misguided football referee who has lost all perspective, an unsettled police agent, self-indulgent drifters seeking authenticity, political refugees and Western hangers-on who just don't seem to grasp what is happening on the streets around them.
But, as I walked down Rue des Morillons, past the people reading newspapers at the café terrace and the children playing in the Parc Georges-Brassens, I could not help but see the denizens of this city as only loosely tied to all of the objects adrift within it: the car keys, the books, the wallets, and the love notes, waiting to be lost, and found.
Last year's decision-making spurt quieted complaints that her government was adrift; arguments within the coalition have become more civil.
Further adrift, but still within a second of Webber, were Ferrari's Felipe Massa and Rosberg before a gap of almost 0.4secs to Sauber's Sergio Perez.
Westwood, who began the final day eight shots adrift, pitched to within a foot at the 12th for his fourth birdie of the day, before finishing nine under.
For them to be nine wickets down and 80 runs still adrift yet come within the thinnest edge of pulling it off was not just statistically improbable but close to miraculous.
In recent years, the center had been widely viewed as adrift, characterized by squabbling within the family and a focus more on Dr. King's legacy than on continuing his work.
