Thesaurus results for STOWAWAY

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noun

as in hijacker

someone who hides on a ship, airplane, etc., in order to travel without paying or being seen A stowaway was discovered on the ship.

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verb

as in to hitchhike

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Noun

In the comedy adventure, 78-year-old grumpy widower Carl (Ed Asner) floats to South America in his house tied to balloons with 8-year-old stowaway Russell (Jordan Nagai). —

Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 16 Aug. 2024 Just as authorities fretted about Christmas Covid spikes, so vets are trying to prevent trailers from clanking back home with microscopic stowaways replicating in udder cells. —

Eric Boodman, STAT, 16 July 2024

Verb

By the end of Ridley Scott’s 1979 film, viewers are pushed to the very edge of their seats after witnessing Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley finally make her way off the Nostromo, only to find the alien stowed away on her escape pod! —

Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024 The chances of war, for months stowed away into the deeper crevices of this city’s psyche, had grown manifold. —

Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 14 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for stowaway

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