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

The pest has shown a remarkable ability to spread quickly and hitchhike, with dead specimens being found as close as Oregon and California.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

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

Because I should hitchhike to Mexico or Rio like a real artist.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

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

From Washington Times ● Sep. 26, 2020

A determined woman hitchhikes with a widower and his 12-year-old daughter to reach her wedding on Christmas Eve.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2019

He hitchhikes to distant factories, drops off job applications and is summarily jeered at for his shabby clothes and poor hygiene.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2019

A wary nomad who hops trains, hitchhikes and travels light, he is an archetypal wanderer whose folk-blues twang evokes a quintessential Americana.

From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2015

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

“Once you have hitchhiked across Africa with ten bucks in your pocket, starting a business doesn’t seem too intimidating,” he told Time magazine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026

Mrs Sanchez said: "I can look back and laugh now that we hitchhiked to our wedding!"

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026

"Remember," I said, "that time you hitchhiked back to college with me after Skit Night?"

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

But for Dreesen, this meant sleeping in a Nash Rambler, a broken-down car that was up on blocks, and hitchhiking up and down Sunset Boulevard hoping to get a five-minute set at the Comedy Store.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

Indeed, history is filled with examples of this, from the medieval Black Death hitchhiking along the Silk Road to the “Russian flu” pandemic of the late 19th century that was accelerated by trains and steamships.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 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

Dinah McNicol was 18 when she vanished in 1991, after hitchhiking home to Essex from a dance music festival in Hampshire.

From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2025

I decided I'd just see old Phoebe and sort of say good- by to her and all, and give her back her Christmas dough, and then I'd start hitchhiking my way out West.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger