Words similar to hitch

Example sentences for: hitch

How can you use “hitch” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

I should not like to have to face the task of listing all the adverbs that might be used with the verb run , even if it is restricted to cars: smoothly, quietly, silently, uninterruptedly, fitfully, intermittently, efficiently, well, faultlessly, beautifully, perfectly, poorly, badly, sluggishly, economically, swiftly, rapidly, quickly --and then one must be prepared to add the multi-word phrasal modifiers, like without a hitch, as if it would never stop, like a clock, like clockwork , etc.
In tandem is often used to mean simultaneously or even side-by-side, but a tandem hitch is actually one or two horses ranged one in front of the other, in a single line, with tandem originally going back to a Latin pun.
The same must be said for hitch, go without a hitch, get hitched, hoist, hold off, hold on , and scores of other entries: these were everyday words in the general language before they were used by sailors.
Lewis says about Clark at the outset that "you didn't interact with him so much as hitch a ride on the back of his life"--and that "the only way to spend time with Jim Clark was to leap onto one of his machines."
On the other hand, a troika -- three political powers working together -- harks back to a Russian hitch of three horses abreast.