hitchhike

As a truck approaches, she attempts to hitchhike from the side of a desert road, only to strike out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025

It took Paul Simon four days to hitchhike from Saginaw, or so he sang in America, his iconic soundscape ballad of the 1960s with its lost souls on the highways of a country in flux.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2024

While diving, he saw a shark with a remora—a fish which uses suction to hitchhike on larger species—attached to its body, and he had an idea.

From National Geographic ● Oct. 23, 2023

Horsehair worms are born in water and use aquatic insects like mayflies to hitchhike to dry land, where they sit tight until they are eaten by terrestrial insects such as crickets or mantises.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2023

What would they think of me if they knew I sometimes had to hitchhike to school?

From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie

The scientists hope their work will prompt Arctic communities to mull new ways to manage sewage and the trash that hitchhikes through it.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2021

It clearly hitchhikes on small liquid particles sprayed out by an infected person.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 26, 2020

A New Jersey girl leaves her boyfriend and hitchhikes to Hollywood to become a star.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2020

RAQQA, Syria — Every three or four days, Fatima Mahmoud hitchhikes 37 miles across a hilly expanse of northeastern Syria to her home town of Raqqa.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2018

He wants a ride somewhere and all the nearby Ubers are booked; he ingeniously hitchhikes with a Papa John’s deliveryman.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2015

To try to avoid bringing it home with her after work, she’d toss all her clothes immediately into the dryer so the heat could kill any eggs that may have hitchhiked on her.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

This generation, who as young adults hitchhiked across the country and backpacked through Europe, now is going on safaris and hiking in the Serengeti on guided tours that offer “easy” as well as “challenging” options.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

He said he "hitchhiked to get there, and had a tent, a dream, and three cans of Heinz sausages and beans".

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025

Feeling remorseful after a year, the younger man wrote a song of apology and hitchhiked back to Kentucky to play it for his father.

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024

Scruggs dropped out of school and hitchhiked west.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

Previous seasons have required contestants to resort to old-fashioned methods to get around, including hitchhiking and relying on the kindness of strangers.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026

In college he spent summers hitchhiking around South America, hiking to Machu Picchu and mostly ignoring warnings of guerrilla activity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

That abomination pops out of an unsettlingly cheerful woman whose husband swoops in to offer the hitchhiking boy a ride.

From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2025

Some of those who chose to walk up PCH tried their luck hitchhiking with the few vehicles that had been able to cross into the evacuation zone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025

In a sudden flash, I remembered the hitchhiking Green Beret.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge