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

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

Young animals disperse by walking or flying, but plants don’t have that option, so they must somehow hitchhike.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond