How do you use Hitching in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Hitching in a sentence
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Hitching meaning
present participle and gerund of hitch
Using Hitching
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of hitch
- In the example corpus, hitching often appears in combinations such as: hitching ride, by hitching, hitching rides.
Context around Hitching
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 7 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hitching
- In this selection, "hitching" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, thing, old, flies, rides, post and posts stand out and add context to how "hitching" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include also believe hitching the anti and an old hitching post on. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hitching" sits close to words such as abadi, acidification and acker, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hitching
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Don junked the truck and has been hitching rides. (9 words)
However, there is one she regrets not hitching her wagon to. (11 words)
So I walked out to the highway and started hitching to the airport. (13 words)
At 9:44 a.m., officers responded to a residence on Connecticut Street concerning a burglary from a vehicle that had reportedly occurred while the vehicle was parked at the Hitching Post Bar and Grill at 580 E Flaming Gorge Way. (41 words)
Almost nothing remains of the old horse-centric infrastructure in Maine, except for one increasingly rare thing: hitching posts — granite or iron posts in front of houses and businesses, there for visitors to tie up their horse before going inside. (40 words)
In a thundering voice vote Sunday night at a gymnasium in Cordoba, about 1,000 members of a that has been moving northward through voted to try to get to the capital Monday by walking and hitching rides. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Almost nothing remains of the old horse-centric infrastructure in Maine, except for one increasingly rare thing: hitching posts — granite or iron posts in front of houses and businesses, there for visitors to tie up their horse before going inside.
An old hitching post on the side of the road on Holyoke Street in Brewer, pictured on Sept. 26, 2023.
At 9:44 a.m., officers responded to a residence on Connecticut Street concerning a burglary from a vehicle that had reportedly occurred while the vehicle was parked at the Hitching Post Bar and Grill at 580 E Flaming Gorge Way.
However, there is one she regrets not hitching her wagon to.
Not only will it safely apply fly repellent to the animal, it will also rub off any flies hitching a ride.
Two hooded figures illegally hitching a ride on the back of a train have been slammed over the stunt.
Because of this, the Chromebook was speedy for most tasks, but running it with all those windows and too many open tabs caused me to experience some cursor slowdowns and occasional hitching.
Engineering and Public Works Director Jim Snowden is asking to change the street name of two sections of Andes Road to Hitching Post Drive and Ball Road.
While the Hitching Lot Farmers' market was filled with fun and local shopping, it wasn't the only place near with business.
But I also believe hitching the "anti-woke" cause to Trump is the worst answer possible.
So I walked out to the highway and started hitching to the airport.
This is a simple way to prevent pathogens that may have contaminated their clothes or hair inside the lab from hitching a ride out of the lab.
A new class of insects has arrived on Britain's shores by hitching a ride on imported plants.
By hitching himself to Juggernaut's coattails, Black Tom managed to come quite close to actually defeating the X-Men a few times, but the two friends didn't always work together.
Don junked the truck and has been hitching rides.
Jack Nicholson’s character in “Five Easy Pieces” (one of my father’s favorite movies), who abandons his girlfriend at a gas station by hitching a ride to Alaska in a logging truck, definitely belongs, too.
There was a “hippy”-looking white girl hitching lifts outside a strip club, a trans woman who called herself Marianne and was still only in her teens.
They can be seen eating out together, grocery shopping and hitching rides with one another.
As migrants entered town on foot and by hitching rides in cars and trucks, town official Gabriel Gonzalez, 43, greeted them in the main street, directing them to various gathering points and aid stations.
In a thundering voice vote Sunday night at a gymnasium in Cordoba, about 1,000 members of a that has been moving northward through voted to try to get to the capital Monday by walking and hitching rides.
Common combinations with hitching
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- hitching ride 10×
- by hitching 7×
- hitching rides 4×
- hitching post 3×
- hitching posts 2×
- the hitching 2×
- hitching himself 2×
- hitching to 2×
- been hitching 2×
- hitching lifts 2×