hitchhike

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

It took Paul Simon four days to hitchhike from Saginaw, or so he sang in America, his iconic soundscape ballad of the 1960s with its lost souls on the highways of a country in flux.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2024

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

Whenever it broke down we’d catch minibuses, or sometimes we’d hitchhike.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

The scientists hope their work will prompt Arctic communities to mull new ways to manage sewage and the trash that hitchhikes through it.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2021

It clearly hitchhikes on small liquid particles sprayed out by an infected person.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 26, 2020

A determined woman hitchhikes with a widower and his 12-year-old daughter to reach her wedding on Christmas Eve.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2019

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

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

This generation, who as young adults hitchhiked across the country and backpacked through Europe, now is going on safaris and hiking in the Serengeti on guided tours that offer “easy” as well as “challenging” options.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

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

Once in the woods, Napoletano asked to be let out of the car to go to the bathroom, and hitchhiked back to Placerville.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024

In the afternoons he hitchhiked to Paguate to see his girl friend.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

Later, on the country rock-tinged Down South, he writes about hitchhiking across Europe with his bandmates in the early 1960s.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

In college he spent summers hitchhiking around South America, hiking to Machu Picchu and mostly ignoring warnings of guerrilla activity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

That abomination pops out of an unsettlingly cheerful woman whose husband swoops in to offer the hitchhiking boy a ride.

From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2025

Some of those who chose to walk up PCH tried their luck hitchhiking with the few vehicles that had been able to cross into the evacuation zone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025

As a sixteen-year-old he embarked on his first long solo trip, spending the summer of 1930 hitchhiking and trekking through Yosemite and Big Sur, ultimately winding up in Carmel.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer