How to Use hitch a ride in a Sentence

hitch a ride

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• These pathogens can hitch a ride on shoes when people travel.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2024
• That applies to bedbugs that may hitch a ride with you back to your home.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• And sometimes, stones hitch a ride on top of these small makeshift vessels.
  — Andrew Paul Aug 14, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2025
• But, no one was really wanting to hitch a ride with this old cowboy.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 13 Mar. 2025
• Migrants hitch a ride for what will be, for most, the last leg of a journey months in the making.
  — Matt Rivers, ABC News, 10 May 2023
• Fleas and ticks can hitch a ride on other animals, or even people!
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2022
• Pests and diseases can hitch a ride indoors when bringing plants in for the winter.
  — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Jan. 2025
• Believe it or not, frogs can sometimes hitch a ride inside a houseplant.
  — Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 28 June 2026
• Watch for stray cholla segments in the trail, eager to hitch a ride on any passing shoe.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 26 Sep. 2022
• These moths hitch a ride to the forest floor during the sloth's once-a-week climb down from the canopy to defecate.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2015
• People were standing on the side of the road trying to hitch a ride west, said others who made the trip.
  — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2022
• Joros can hitch a ride on almost anything; a car bumper or cargo container.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Oct. 2021
• Avoid brushing up against dense vegetation where ticks may be waiting to hitch a ride.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 July 2024
• If your cat or dog is outdoors and unprotected, fleas hitch a ride and come indoors with them.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 23 June 2026
• The disease travels much quicker when the spores hitch a ride on firewood, Dube said.
  — Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 5 July 2021
• Light infantry troops sneer at mechanized infantry, who hitch a ride to battle.
  — Paul Scharre, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2018
• At the end of the road, some people hitch a ride up Highway 101 back to their car.
  — Madison Chapman, Outside, 25 Mar. 2026
• Without a local grocery option, Mabrey has had to take the bus or hitch a ride to shop for food.
  — Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 27 Feb. 2024
• Some of the electrons can then hitch a ride on the accelerating Alfvén wave.
  — Brianna Barbu, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2021
• There aren’t many Boston-area executives who get to hitch a ride in a fighter jet.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2023
• If your cat or dog is outside and not wearing a flea protection product, fleas hitch a ride indoors with them.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2024
• Wind distributes pollen for many plants, but others depend on animals to let pollen hitch a ride.
  — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2025
• On the left flank was the coronavirus, whose spike proteins would be delighted to hitch a ride on your popcorn.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2020
• These small, sticky crustaceans attach to whales’ skin and hitch a ride to filter more of the ocean’s nutrient-rich waters.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2023
• To make the trek, whichever spacecraft astronauts hitch a ride on will only have space for the bare essentials on board.
  — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2019
• The project team hopes to hitch a ride on an upcoming CLPS mission.
  — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2026
• The researchers behind the brain plastics study think the tiny shards of plastic hitch a ride on fat molecules to get inside brain cells.
  — Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2025
• What happens is, the virus can multiply and hitch a ride to other organs in your body if your immune system doesn’t tame it in due time.
  — Erica Sloan, SELF, 28 Feb. 2025
• The plan is to hitch a ride on a cruise to one of Antarctica's research bases and stay there with just the Zodiacs.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
• Dawkins had to provide her own transportation and was able to hitch a ride, along with some other students, to and from Dillard.
  — Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2024