hitch up
Example Sentences
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The students hitch up backpacks emblazoned with Spider Man and the sisters of “Frozen,” then form two rambunctious lines that follow Alabsi like ducklings through broken streets.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2024
Other ambitious self-starters will counsel you to hitch up your trousers and keep at it.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2022
Now, they live in houses made of bamboo and tin, in neighborhoods where the drains back up in the monsoon and you have to hitch up your sari to wade through the filthy, stinking floodwaters.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2018
It's easy to forget after the most stunning blunder in Oscars history, but as Weiss points out, the show had gone off without a hitch up until that final envelope was opened.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2018
He would take Vernon into town for the meeting, so I showed John how to hitch up Belle and Dimple.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
