hitchhike
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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
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 event's organisers arranged for buses to take people from the road to the nearby city of Reno - but some people say they had to pay for rides or hitchhike out of the area.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2023
They might hitchhike, but Dicey didn’t like that idea.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
It clearly hitchhikes on small liquid particles sprayed out by an infected person.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 26, 2020
A New Jersey girl leaves her boyfriend and hitchhikes to Hollywood to become a star.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2020
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
And I did not love “Homeward Bound,” last week’s episode where Hannah dumps Fran, jumps on Ray, and eventually hitchhikes back to New York.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2016
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
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
Feeling remorseful after a year, the younger man wrote a song of apology and hitchhiked back to Kentucky to play it for his father.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024
The girls had hitchhiked after buying some items at a gas station east of Indianapolis, according to the police.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2024
Then he hitchhiked back, all the way from Mobile, Alabama.”
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
The backpackers were picked up when hitchhiking on a long stretch of road between Sydney and Melbourne.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
“Down South” chronicles a hitchhiking trip on which Mr. McCartney and George Harrison bonded over guitars and rock ’n’ roll.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
Indeed, history is filled with examples of this, from the medieval Black Death hitchhiking along the Silk Road to the “Russian flu” pandemic of the late 19th century that was accelerated by trains and steamships.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2026
“I don’t care if you were driving a Bentley or you were hitchhiking to the beach. You knew the Craw and you loved the Craw.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025
Walking down the dirt road that day, I imagined myself being brave and hitchhiking the three miles to my house.
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
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