stowed away; stowing away; stows away
: to secrete oneself aboard a vehicle as a means of obtaining transportation
Examples of stowaway in a Sentence
Noun
A stowaway was discovered on the ship.
Recent Examples on the Web
Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 16 Aug. 2024
Just as authorities fretted about Christmas Covid spikes, so vets are trying to prevent trailers from clanking back home with microscopic stowaways replicating in udder cells.
—Eric Boodman, STAT, 16 July 2024
Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
The chances of war, for months stowed away into the deeper crevices of this city’s psyche, had grown manifold.
—Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 14 Aug. 2024
See all Example Sentences for stowaway 
Noun
In the comedy adventure, 78-year-old grumpy widower Carl (Ed Asner) floats to South America in his house tied to balloons with 8-year-old stowaway Russell (Jordan Nagai).
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 16 Aug. 2024
Just as authorities fretted about Christmas Covid spikes, so vets are trying to prevent trailers from clanking back home with microscopic stowaways replicating in udder cells.
—Eric Boodman, STAT, 16 July 2024
Verb
By the end of Ridley Scott’s 1979 film, viewers are pushed to the very edge of their seats after witnessing Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley finally make her way off the Nostromo, only to find the alien stowed away on her escape pod!
—Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
The chances of war, for months stowed away into the deeper crevices of this city’s psyche, had grown manifold.
—Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 14 Aug. 2024
See all Example Sentences for stowaway
These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'stowaway.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
Dictionary Entries Near stowaway
Cite this Entry
“Stowaway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stowaway. Accessed 7 Sep. 2024.
Copy CitationKids Definition
stowaway
1 of 2 noun
stow·away
ˈstō-ə-ˌwā 
: one who stows away : an unregistered passenger
stow away
2 of 2 verbˌstō-ə-ˈwā
: to hide aboard a vehicle to obtain transportation
Love words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share