Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stowed away
Verb
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When the Chicago Tribune went after him, stirring up the first of many federal, state, and local investigations into Robinson's activities, Noah thumbed his nose.—
Gail Sheehy,
Vanity Fair,
20 Feb. 2026 -
House lawyers argued that Bannon had thumbed his nose at the committee and ignored the subpoena.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
9 Feb. 2026
Verb
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The flick takes place at Gooding’s character’s bachelor party, which gets hijacked once Hart enters the picture.—
Juliana Ukiomogbe,
InStyle,
3 Mar. 2026
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In 1970, Mimi was on Trans World Airlines Flight 741 when it got rerouted from Tel Aviv to to Jordan after it was hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Mar. 2026
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Four years into his prison sentence, Manchester escaped from an Anson County prison and hitchhiked to Charlotte.—
Zach Dennis,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Sep. 2025
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Crowding out the understory Researchers think Japanese stiltgrass hitchhiked to the United States in the early 1900s.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
28 Aug. 2025
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But as the tables turned quickly on Thursday afternoon, many rank and file staffers expressed regret that the studio would not be hitched to the industry’s dominant subscription streaming platform but rather to a smaller, struggling rival legacy media conglomerate.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
27 Feb. 2026
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The clerk only found out who was getting hitched when the bride told her that her new surname would be Bessette-Kennedy.—
Melissa Locker,
Southern Living,
21 Feb. 2026
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“Stowed away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stowed%20away. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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