stowed away

past tense of stow away

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for stowed away
Verb
  • Since then, several states have thumbed their nose at the order.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • In short, Moscow sees Montenegro as both strategically valuable and an impudent upstart that has thumbed its nose at the Russian bear while genuflecting before NATO and Washington.
    Edward P. Joseph, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2016
Verb
  • Somewhere along the way, it was hijacked — people turned into export cargo.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
  • What about plain-Jane organic sheep who’ve been hijacked by a grapefruit-size eyeball with tentacles?
    Chris Klimek, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Four years into his prison sentence, Manchester escaped from an Anson County prison and hitchhiked to Charlotte.
    Zach Dennis, Charlotte Observer, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Crowding out the understory Researchers think Japanese stiltgrass hitchhiked to the United States in the early 1900s.
    Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • When Jean arrived with Wole, before the sun was high-hot, Kelly was already there, sitting tacky under Mickey Martinez’s arm, inside his red F-150, the boat hitched behind.
    David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • In three weeks’ time, getting hitched in Los Angeles County will become significantly more expensive.
    Claire Wang, Oc Register, 26 Sep. 2025
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“Stowed away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stowed%20away. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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