hitchhike

How To Use hitchhike In A Sentence

• Insects and worms hitchhike the ocean on bits of flotsam, coming ashore wherever the winds and currents take them.
• The question of whether its crew knew what kind of hitchhiker they'd taken aboard was still open. Perseus Spur
• With a stirred heart filled with the sounds of longing, I hitchhiked myself along the most extraordinary love trip possible. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
• Women should never hitchhike on their own.
• Consulting a copy of "The Chinese Automobile Driver's Book of Maps," Mr. Hessler decides to follow the printed crenellations of the Great Wall west into the arid heartland of the country, picking up hitchhikers as he goes. China's Long, Strange Road Trip
• To find the adaptation signal, Petrov and his colleagues looked for regions of the genome that "hitchhiked" along with an adaptation. Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
• The hitchhiker keeps showing up, like a bad dream, like the devil himself.
• There may be dog-eared copies of the works of James Michener lying about, and Douglas Adams, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" sits in your backpack.
• (link) The variant I'm familiar with (UK) the ghost is benevolent, and helps the driver get home safely (by keeping them awake, taking the wheel, what have you), and often the hitchhiker is the ghost of someone who died on a bad curve on that same road while driving home late at night some time earlier. Seanan_mcguire: A question about hitch-hiking ghosts.
• It was a time when you could hitchhike everywhere. Times, Sunday Times