hitchhike

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

“It’s an amazing, magical, healing place,” Yerkes said, adding that people are so friendly that many often hitchhike to work during the summer.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2022

We would hike to the gap if it killed us, and then try to hitchhike into Hiawassee for dinner and a night in a motel.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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

And I did not love “Homeward Bound,” last week’s episode where Hannah dumps Fran, jumps on Ray, and eventually hitchhikes back to New York.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2016

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

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

I said, ‘Well, I hitchhiked here ... just to hear you play and tell you how great we in Michigan think you are,’” he recalls.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

We hitchhiked into town on the truck that came to pick up the donations.

From Salon ● Feb. 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

Once a week he hitchhiked to Chamisaville for lunch with the other volunteers, and for a shower at the KOA Kampgrounds a mile north of town.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Later, on the country rock-tinged Down South, he writes about hitchhiking across Europe with his bandmates in the early 1960s.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

Meanwhile, songs like “Down South” brim with nostalgia for days gone by — in this instance, memories of a hitchhiking jaunt with Harrison.

From Salon ● May 12, 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

“I don’t care if you were driving a Bentley or you were hitchhiking to the beach. You knew the Craw and you loved the Craw.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025

“Oh, you mean at August’s. We were hitchhiking and got let out at Tiburon. We knocked on August’s door, and she gave us a bed. That’s it.”

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd