come adrift

On the second night one of the boats comes adrift.

Another one of those names come adrift from its original meaning.

"When that happened, I felt as if things had come adrift.

We hardly noticed anything up here, until the pipes came adrift.

His mind came adrift and he began to wander.

It was secure; nothing had come adrift during the recent manoeuvres.

It's as if he's come adrift, got lost in some inner hell and he can't find his way out.

The shafts, the whole front rig, had come adrift and was in pieces on the ground.

She nearly came adrift from her chair, but managed a sheepish smile.

Perhaps Betty had come adrift; he might have been careless in anchoring her.

You'll have to check over all the circuits to be sure none of them have come adrift.

There was a purring sound as a seam came adrift somewhere.

I don't want something coming adrift at the speeds we'll be traveling."

His brain didn't so much break down, exactly, as come adrift, or at least begin steering by a map nobody else could read.

Her harangue would lose its force if she came adrift on take-off.

The whole bed came adrift under Jenna's back.

If the infantry came adrift from the protective screen of shellfire, the attack would be lost.

More shouts sounded below as the crew came awake with the movement, no doubt thinking they had come adrift.

A wisp of hair had come adrift from the intricate styling, and she brushed it away.

A rotor come adrift, maybe, or something else?

The shirt frill came adrift and Jack turned to Stephen.

But an ideologically sound party had little to fear from this: it could never come adrift from the true interests of the class.

Shortly after this I nearly suffocated when the pipe of my breathing apparatus came adrift.

The ferocious-looking spines, which seem almost too large for the central animal, are mostly attached, but one or two have come adrift.

No one likes his anchors to come adrift."