How to Use hitchhike in a Sentence

hitchhike

verb
  • Her car broke down, so she had to hitchhike back home.
  • He hitchhiked his way across the country last summer.
  • Martin skied to the road and hitchhiked to the ski area for help.
    — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Still restless, the duo set off to hitchhike across the world.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The two often hitchhiked home for the weekend.
    — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Mar. 2026
  • So the fact that some diving beetles had hitchhiked along didn’t seem like a bad thing at first.
    — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 1 Mar. 2019
  • This is a prime way these insects hitchhike to their next location.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Black had contact with many people in town while hitchhiking back and forth.
    — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The berries can hitchhike to new host trees by a bird's beak, an animal's fur, or feathers.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The teenager was hitchhiking in the region and was picked up by a truck driver.
    — Nancy Ing, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Arrange a car shuttle or hitchhike to get back to your vehicle.
    — Carey Kish, Outside Online, 18 June 2020
  • The band hitchhiked, riding much of the way with a semitrailer truck driver on speed.
    — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2017
  • But Kathie, who had hitchhiked before, persuaded them to give it a try.
    — Marisa Kwiatkowski, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
  • Boats that pass through it would be shot with water jets to remove small and stunned fish that might hitchhike on boat bottoms.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland.com, 8 Dec. 2017
  • The three boys went to the Loop to watch a movie and were picked up by Hansen while hitchhiking home.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The more particles a bird eats, the greater the chance that those hitchhiking microbes take hold in its gut.
    — WIRED, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Bob came out of nowhere and hitchhiked to New York City with a guitar on his back.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The frogs would have to hitchhike across a state border to reach the area, and there’s some doubt tadpoles could even survive there.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 26 July 2018
  • Whiteley sometimes cut north through the creek bed to hitchhike on the main road nearby, Spruill said.
    — Dallas News, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The 21-year-old hitchhiked and found help nearby, at a park employee’s home.
    — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 26 June 2023
  • The caller said the woman seemed to be in distress and was trying to hitchhike or get someone to stop.
    — cleveland, 11 June 2021
  • To get to trailheads, Leclerc would hitchhike, take the bus, or have his parents or his sister drop him off.
    — Matt Skenazy, Outside Online, 19 June 2018
  • With no car or money, Lester hitchhiked to Chicago and held up a candy store.
    — Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 16 June 2024
  • That’s like the kid who takes a year off after high school to hitchhike across Chile before heading to college.
    — Houston Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Larry, who was 36 at the time, hitchhiked to Grand Marais to move in with his parents.
    — Longreads, 4 June 2024
  • The towers could allow some of their members to reach new places or to hitchhike on other organisms such as fruit flies.
    — Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 5 June 2025
  • But many students go to school elsewhere, and the virus has proved its ability to hitchhike with travelers.
    — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Ricky and Keith had been in Europe for a while hitchhiking and bumming around.
    — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 29 May 2018
  • Naqvi had walked to a gas station after leaving the jail and hitchhiked about 9 miles to the hotel, Afzal said.
    — Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Panspermia takes this a step further and suggests that life could catch a ride on that debris, hitchhiking from one planet to the next.
    — National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2017

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