Sentence examples for left drifting from inspiring English sources

The probe was left drifting in space.

"You can spend everything you want on housing, but if people don't have jobs and a sense of responsibility for the community, then they're left drifting about".

The boats, laden with women, children and others wounded in the violence, have been left drifting in the broad Naf River delta between the two countries, short of food and water, said the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

After centuries of domination by foreign powers, the Kurds had their best chance at independence after the First World War, when President Woodrow Wilson promised the Kurds, along with other groups left drifting and exposed by the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, a large measure of autonomy.

As a result, he said, thousands of the most able pupils – many from disadvantaged backgrounds – had been left "drifting" through the first few years of secondary school, allowing academic standards to fall and the attainment gap between rich and poor students to widen.

The migrants, who want to reach Malaysia, were instead being sent by sea, but thousands were left drifting as no country wanted to take them in.

You see the plane you have just left, drift into the clouds (if there are any), and the land is far away but approaching rapidly.

Instead of arguing about values, priorities and solutions, the right and left drifted into almost theological debates about reality.

Though Jim and I plan to stay, the divers from the other boats now begin to leave, drifting upward, following their bubbles, ascending with measured fin.

We shall never have the chance to find out, but it's consoling to reflect that even a blockbuster as muscular, and sometimes as muttonheaded, as "X-Men: Apocalypse" can leave, drifting in its wake, the ghosts of films unmade.

Brown leaves drifted in dirty pools in the butts of chairs.