How to Use ride shotgun in a Sentence

ride shotgun

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• The women in the driver’s seat and riding shotgun have been in a bun on the open road for two months now.
  — Sara "kraut" Gregory, AJC.com, 20 Aug. 2026
• Cook is staying on as executive chairman, and Ternus has been riding shotgun through the memory crisis.
  — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2026
• She’d be seen on the big screen, riding shotgun with Burt Reynolds in Smokey and the Bandit within a year of Sybil premiering.
  — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 2 Aug. 2026
• Daemon, with his Valyrian steel warhelm and taste for annihilation, is who Rhaenyra needs riding shotgun now that Team Green has established a crown-seeking triumvirate of sons.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026
• Maheu and Perreault-Magny tied up briefly in the middle of the placid river with officers from the Akwesasne nation, a Tim Hortons coffee cup riding shotgun on their console.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 29 July 2026