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

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

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

“The train! Can’t we even hitchhike to New York?”

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg