How to Use hitchhike in a Sentence

hitchhike

verb
Definition of hitchhikenext
Synonyms for hitchhikenext
  • Her car broke down, so she had to hitchhike back home.
  • He hitchhiked his way across the country last summer.
  • Martin skied to the road and hitchhiked to the ski area for help.
    — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 22 Mar. 2018
  • So the fact that some diving beetles had hitchhiked along didn’t seem like a bad thing at first.
    — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 1 Mar. 2019
  • The frogs would have to hitchhike across a state border to reach the area, and there’s some doubt tadpoles could even survive there.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 26 July 2018
  • The teenager was hitchhiking in the region and was picked up by a truck driver.
    — Nancy Ing, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The more particles a bird eats, the greater the chance that those hitchhiking microbes take hold in its gut.
    — WIRED, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Whiteley sometimes cut north through the creek bed to hitchhike on the main road nearby, Spruill said.
    — Dallas News, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The band hitchhiked, riding much of the way with a semitrailer truck driver on speed.
    — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The 21-year-old hitchhiked and found help nearby, at a park employee’s home.
    — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 26 June 2023
  • The berries can hitchhike to new host trees by a bird's beak, an animal's fur, or feathers.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The caller said the woman seemed to be in distress and was trying to hitchhike or get someone to stop.
    — cleveland, 11 June 2021
  • To get to trailheads, Leclerc would hitchhike, take the bus, or have his parents or his sister drop him off.
    — Matt Skenazy, Outside Online, 19 June 2018
  • That’s like the kid who takes a year off after high school to hitchhike across Chile before heading to college.
    — Houston Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Boats that pass through it would be shot with water jets to remove small and stunned fish that might hitchhike on boat bottoms.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland.com, 8 Dec. 2017
  • The bike actually breathed its last gasp in Chilean Patagonia, forcing the pair to hitchhike most of the way.
    — Lisette Poole, Smithsonian, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Ricky and Keith had been in Europe for a while hitchhiking and bumming around.
    — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 29 May 2018
  • The winding highway from the rugged wooded hills of Jerusalem to Tel Aviv on the coast was crowded with reservists hitchhiking to join their units.
    — Lily Rothman, Time, 9 June 1950
  • Like Don Shula finding his car battery dead and being forced to hitchhike home from the airport with son David.
    — By Bob Rubin, miamiherald, 19 Dec. 2016
  • Arrange a car shuttle or hitchhike to get back to your vehicle.
    — Carey Kish, Outside Online, 18 June 2020
  • The 2011 east Japan tsunami swept huge amounts of wreckage out to sea—and Japanese species hitchhiked across the Pacific on the debris.
    — Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Panspermia takes this a step further and suggests that life could catch a ride on that debris, hitchhiking from one planet to the next.
    — National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2017
  • Once, when a train strike left them stranded in Eastern Germany, they were forced to hitchhike at night—but Otto helped Sims keep her cool.
    — Kathryn Hymes, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2022
  • But many students go to school elsewhere, and the virus has proved its ability to hitchhike with travelers.
    — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Microbes from elsewhere can also hitchhike into the area, arriving on the feet and feathers of birds or blowing in on the wind.
    — Carrie Arnold, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2019
  • He was determined, hitchhiking to St. Lawrence as a teen and convincing the dean to approve a student loan.
    — Dallas News, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The insects are not the only things that can hitchhike to other communities.
    — Julia Terruso, Philly.com, 5 July 2018
  • Once the insects are established in a tree of heaven, their eggs could easily hitchhike to other trees and fruit crops.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2022
  • My children will never hitchhike, and yours won’t either.
    — Larry Sleep, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2018
  • Japanese beetles were found in Boise, having hitchhiked here on plants from an out-of-state nursery.
    — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 26 July 2017

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