thumb a ride

Example Sentences

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Right now, European travelers hoping to get to Monrovia or Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown must squeeze on to services operated by Brussels Airlines and Royal Air Maroc, or thumb a ride on a military jet.

From Time • Oct. 8, 2014

One day she spied six Oberlin undergraduates�three men, three women�standing on the outskirts of town trying to thumb a ride.

From Time Magazine Archive

“We’re going to Highway Forty and thumb a ride to Tiburon, South Carolina. At least we’re gonna try.”

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

"We might be able to thumb a ride with the Navy."

From A Yankee Flier in Italy by Montgomery, Rutherford George

I� arrived in Rochester in the middle of the night and took a taxi to� Pittsford where I stood on the corner to thumb a ride.

From The Biography of a Rabbit by Benson, Roy, Jr.