Examples of use of cut adrift
1. With a Conservative party that has seemed to want only to recreate the 1'50s, we are cut adrift without a liferaft.
2. The evidence reportedly points to them having been cut adrift in the Atlantic and left to drift off to a slow, painful end.
3. Cut adrift from its Al Qaeda sponsors, JI appears to be splintered by the loss of its leaders and internal divisions over attacks on civilians.
4. "They were disabled" with gunfire, "cut adrift, and sunk as hazards to navigation." In the latest incident, the pirates hijacked the Japanese–owned ship Golden Nori in October and released it Wednesday, the last of several captured vessels.
5. In partnerships, those in squeaky–clean bits of the business might grumble at bearing the costs of others‘ transgressions, but the thought that partners facing prosecution will now be cut adrift might cause some to wonder what partnership means.