stowing away

present participle of stow away

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for stowing away
Verb
  • His journey involved freighters, hitchhiking and about any means of transportation available that was not an airplane or rental car.
    Corky Carroll, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025
  • What Hicks longs to do, in the face of these multidirectional threats to life and liberty, is persuade April to run away with him, hitchhiking from Wisconsin to who knows where, like a pair of Depression-era hoboes, out of range of anyone who wishes them ill.
    Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This constant barrage overshadows the self-care experience, hijacking my focus and frankly, tiring me out.
    Caelan McMichael, Allure, 7 Oct. 2025
  • These devices emit bursts of electromagnetic energy across multiple bands, effectively blinding or hijacking most standard FPV drones that depend on Wi-Fi or radio.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Israel, a small nation dependent on our country for military support, is thumbing its nose at us, the most powerful country in the world.
    DP Opinion, Denver Post, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Today, Lone Star state legislators are thumbing their noses at the longstanding political norm, followed by every other state, of waiting until the next census before redrawing their congressional districts.
    Mercury News Editorial, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Getting stuck in some remote native village for 36 days while hitching rides.
    Corky Carroll, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The researchers had shown in 2023 that parasitic scraps of DNA could spread within bacterial populations by hitching rides on the tails of infecting viruses.
    Elie Dolgin, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2025
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“Stowing away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stowing%20away. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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