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• So, the answer is to hitch a ride on Wall Street's wagon.
  — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 28 May 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Joros can hitch a ride on almost anything; a car bumper or cargo container.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Oct. 2021
• Observe a working blacksmith, hitch a ride on a stagecoach, or try to knock down the wooden pins at an old fashioned bowling alley.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 13 May 2023
• Their new landlords don’t want bedbugs or cockroaches to hitch a ride on their possessions.
  — David Calvert, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2021
• Well, at least Lowry is, with Dedmon hoping to hitch a ride as part of the Philadelphia Eagles bandwagon.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2023
• That’s left the tax bill as the odd man out, as Wyden searches for another piece of legislation on which the tax provisions could hitch a ride before mid-April.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024
• The creatures were able to hitch a ride on a private plane thanks to a nonprofit organization called Turtles Fly Too.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
• Bed bugs can also hitch a ride into your home on used furniture or items purchased at secondhand stores or garage sales.
  — Jerome Goddard, The Conversation, 3 June 2022
• Formula 1 racecars will not be zooming around Sochi as planned, nor will British satellites hitch a ride on Russian rockets.
  — New York Times, 2 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024