hitchhike

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

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

He had got there by the following route: a row with his father, a hitchhike journey from Anchorage to Seattle, a visit to the recruiting offices of the Merchant Marine.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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

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

At age 17, he hitchhiked for nine hours from Ann Arbor, Mich., to New York City to see Davis at the Village Vanguard.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

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

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026

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

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 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

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

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

My father tells stories about hitchhiking in pickups across the countryside to Lake Malawi, where he bought bundles of dried fish, rice, and used clothing, to sell back in the Dowa market.

From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba