Get to know Stowaway better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like passenger or rider.
Stowaway meaning
A person who hides on board a ship, train, etc. so as to get a free passage.
Using Stowaway
- The main meaning on this page is: A person who hides on board a ship, train, etc. so as to get a free passage.
- Useful related words include: passenger, rider.
- In the example corpus, stowaway often appears in combinations such as: the stowaway, stowaway who, stowaway in.
Context around Stowaway
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stowaway
- In this selection, "stowaway" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, surprise, tiny, little, seeds, sally and managed stand out and add context to how "stowaway" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include of the stowaway who fell and 30 the stowaway fell from. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stowaway" sits close to words such as abhinandan, abhor and abscesses, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stowaway
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
She got her stowaway career started in my town. (9 words)
Also known as The Space Machine and Stowaway to Mars. (10 words)
But what made it even worse was the little stowaway in the backseat. (13 words)
His shipmates protested vainly, so they tied a rope around him to drag him back from whatever demons might lurk in the hold, and he went down, bringing to light nothing worse than a four footed stowaway, in the shape of a hungry and terrified cat. (46 words)
As debate continues on the identity of the stowaway who fell from a Kenya Airways flight in June, the matter has brought to the fore a security and humanity issue that has been affecting the aviation industry for decades without a solution. (42 words)
New York City real estate broker Rob Jackson was on the Delta flight when the stowaway was discovered and told CNN that passengers were told to stay seated after landing so police could board the plane. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Lyannah said her only saving grace was not biting the bit of the burger that had the stowaway in it (Image: Facebook/iyannah.
Next, Spencer will discover a surprise stowaway who climbed aboard without Victor’s knowledge.
They travelled from Down Under, tiny stowaway seeds that turned the river banks around Scottish Borders woollen mills into a blaze of springtime colour.
Vowing to save the town, the Baron sets off to find his former super-powered companions to assist him -- reluctantly taking along the stowaway Sally (Sarah Polley) as an impromptu sidekick.
Airport officials said the stowaway managed to get through security without a boarding pass and access the loading bridge.
In the Seattle incident, the stowaway went through a TSA security checkpoint the evening before the flight but wasn’t holding a boarding pass, an airport spokesperson told CNN.
New York City real estate broker Rob Jackson was on the Delta flight when the stowaway was discovered and told CNN that passengers were told to stay seated after landing so police could board the plane.
But what made it even worse was the little stowaway in the backseat.
An e-fit image of the KQ stowaway as shared by the Metropolitan Police in London.
An investigative report by British broadcaster Sky News, that had 'confirmed' the identity of the stowaway who fell from a Kenya Airways plane in London, has been pulled down.
As debate continues on the identity of the stowaway who fell from a Kenya Airways flight in June, the matter has brought to the fore a security and humanity issue that has been affecting the aviation industry for decades without a solution.
His shipmates protested vainly, so they tied a rope around him to drag him back from whatever demons might lurk in the hold, and he went down, bringing to light nothing worse than a four footed stowaway, in the shape of a hungry and terrified cat.
On June 30, the stowaway fell from Kenya Airways flight KQ 100 that had left Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport before landing in a residential garden.
She got her stowaway career started in my town.
The Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) has dismissed claims that the stowaway who fell in a London garden was a cleaner at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
The Kenyan Airports Authority (KAA) has disputed a Sky News investigation about the identity of a stowaway who fell from a Kenyan Airways plane into a south London garden on 30 June.
The stowaway concealed himself in the plane's rear left landing gear well.
So-called “serial stowaway” Marilyn Hartman was arrested again by Chicago police Thursday night, after boarding a British Airways plane to London.
Also known as The Space Machine and Stowaway to Mars.
Hundreds seeking to reach Britain made use of the situation to attempt to stowaway inside and underneath transport trucks destined for the United Kingdom.
Common combinations with stowaway
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the stowaway 11×
- stowaway who 5×
- stowaway in 4×
- of stowaway 2×