hitchhike

Example Sentences

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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

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

Police believed she had tried to hitchhike her way home.

From BBC • May 14, 2023

I was still too scared to hitchhike in the dark.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides