How to Use hitch a ride in a Sentence

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  • So, the answer is to hitch a ride on Wall Street's wagon.
    John S. Tobey, Forbes, 28 May 2022
  • That applies to bedbugs that may hitch a ride with you back to your home.
    Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
  • These moths hitch a ride to the forest floor during the sloth's once-a-week climb down from the canopy to defecate.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2015
  • Migrants hitch a ride for what will be, for most, the last leg of a journey months in the making.
    Matt Rivers, ABC News, 10 May 2023
  • Migrants hitch a ride for what will be, for most, the last leg of a journey months in the making.
    Matt Rivers, ABC News, 10 May 2023
  • The plants continue to hitch a ride — via hikers and cars.
    Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
  • The plants continue to hitch a ride — via hikers and cars.
    Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
  • People were standing on the side of the road trying to hitch a ride west, said others who made the trip.
    Thomas Grove, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Employees who don’t own boats can hitch a ride in, too.
    Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2023
  • These pathogens can hitch a ride on shoes when people travel.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The plan is to hitch a ride on a cruise to one of Antarctica's research bases and stay there with just the Zodiacs.
    Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The disease travels much quicker when the spores hitch a ride on firewood, Dube said.
    Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 5 July 2021
  • Without a local grocery option, Mabrey has had to take the bus or hitch a ride to shop for food.
    Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Then hitch a ride on the Bonanza Express and drop down to the Pioneer lift.
    Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Watch for stray cholla segments in the trail, eager to hitch a ride on any passing shoe.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Some of the electrons can then hitch a ride on the accelerating Alfvén wave.
    Brianna Barbu, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The teens steal a car, hitch a ride in the box of a pickup truck in Texas (cue the country tunes), and discover things about each other and themselves.
    Jonathon Van Maren, National Review, 20 Sep. 2020
  • Fleas and ticks can hitch a ride on other animals, or even people!
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2022
  • On the left flank was the coronavirus, whose spike proteins would be delighted to hitch a ride on your popcorn.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2020
  • These small, sticky crustaceans attach to whales’ skin and hitch a ride to filter more of the ocean’s nutrient-rich waters.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2023
  • These small, sticky crustaceans attach to whales’ skin and hitch a ride to filter more of the ocean’s nutrient-rich waters.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2023
  • There aren’t many Boston-area executives who get to hitch a ride in a fighter jet.
    Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Dawkins had to provide her own transportation and was able to hitch a ride, along with some other students, to and from Dillard.
    Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The lander will hitch a ride into orbit atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
    Denise Chow, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2024
  • To make the trek, whichever spacecraft astronauts hitch a ride on will only have space for the bare essentials on board.
    Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2019
  • This cues flashing lights and the pink and black striped prop helicopter rigged to the ceiling of the amphitheater to descend toward to stage for Kelly to hitch a ride.
    Chloe McGowan, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Avoid brushing up against dense vegetation where ticks may be waiting to hitch a ride.
    Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 July 2024
  • Joros can hitch a ride on almost anything; a car bumper or cargo container.
    Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The company's Cygnus craft will hitch a ride into orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Pest Inspect Bad bugs love to hitch a ride from the grower and multiply in less than ideal conditions.
    Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 20 Mar. 2024

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