Example sentences for: hitch

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

  • Second, it is a twisting hitch, made in the bight of a rope to form two eyes through which the hook of a tackle is passed for hoisting.

  • 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.

  • You can't do business from an empty wagon -- an empty peddler's wagon--and if you heed the advice of the other Ralph Emerson, you will hitch your wagon to a star .

  • Not Without a Hitch

  • 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.


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