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

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

“And we’d have to hitchhike all the way home.”

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia

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

She runs away from home, hitchhikes and is picked up by a hearse, driven by Divine in a rare male role.

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2015

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

At age 17, he hitchhiked for nine hours from Ann Arbor, Mich., to New York City to see Davis at the Village Vanguard.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

We hitchhiked into town on the truck that came to pick up the donations.

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026

He said he "hitchhiked to get there, and had a tent, a dream, and three cans of Heinz sausages and beans".

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025

"Remember," I said, "that time you hitchhiked back to college with me after Skit Night?"

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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

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

Four famous duos have travelled nearly 6,000 km, hitchhiking through mountain towns, foraging in dense jungles, and battling challenges they never imagined, as contestants in Celebrity Race Across the World.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025

One shows the couple with the hitchhiking ghosts from the famous finish of Disney’s Haunted Mansion ride.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025

I thought it odd he should come all the way up from Yale even hitchhiking, as he did, to save money, just to say hello.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath