hitchhiker
Example Sentences
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In 1967, an unlikely American duo of Charlie Cushman, a hitchhiker, and Herbert “Skip” Cole, a postgraduate student, were sent around the country by the antiquities department, to gather up some of the heritage.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2024
It belonged to an Apache hitchhiker named James Harry Reyos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2023
Worst of all, the spotted lanternfly is a skilled hitchhiker, able to cling to surfaces that travel at high speed, such as cars and trains.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 31, 2023
Only one fish made it past the electrodes during the test, apparently as a hitchhiker in the space between barges as they pushed up the canal.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2023
A rifle protruded from the young man’s backpack, but he looked friendly enough; a hitchhiker with a Remington semiautomatic isn’t the sort of thing that gives motorists pause in the forty-ninth state.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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