adrift

adrift from the subject

adrift in a strange city

The ship was adrift on the high seas.

a cargo ship went adrift .

the team are three points adrift of the leaders.

adrift for three days on the sea

He was adrift in an open boat for three days.

one of my fillings has come adrift .

a lackadaisical defence left Spurs adrift in the second half.

He turned his son adrift in a snowstorm.

She had been cut adrift from everything she had known.

Set adrift by his roguish crew, the captain of the ship spent a week alone at sea.

Two or three grave sedate-looking persons shook their heads, and left the inn, hinting, that if Gile Gosling wished to continue to thrive, he should turn his thriftless godless nephew adrift again.