hitchhike

as in to hitch
to travel by securing free rides another one of those novels in which the hero undertakes a journey of self-discovery by hitchhiking around the country

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Recent Examples of hitchhike The first incident describes an alleged rape in 1971 when the plaintiff, then a 14-year-old student, was sent on a hitchhiking errand by a school dormitory counselor to purchase groceries from a nearby Kosher grocery store, Shapiro’s. Glynis Kazanjian, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2025 Rahill hitchhiked across the country to upstate New York for his sister’s graduation. Uma Raja, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2025 Prosecutors said Grissom, an Arkansas long-haul truck driver who had a lengthy criminal record, picked up Johns, who was hitchhiking, on his way to Oklahoma City to apply for a job. arkansasonline.com, 21 Mar. 2025 There were always people hitchhiking on I-80, hoping for a ride across the bridge. Nick Newman, IndieWire, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hitchhike
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  • Load it with lumber, hitch a trailer, or even drive into a strong headwind, and that figure can drop faster than your enthusiasm on a Monday morning.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 May 2025
  • Instead, women’s football has been hitched to the Festival Girl Power Summer brandwagon.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 13 May 2025
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  • It is now applied to anyone who has not visited the shower trailer and is desperately trying to bum a cig.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Grant invites Dina on the one-on-one, leaving the rest of the women feeling like this: Even though they’re bummed, the women keep their comments positive.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 18 Feb. 2025

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