3 Sentences With "thumbing a ride"

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The "Hitchhiking" Ghost Blue Velvet Cake — a blue velvet cake with blueberry purée, rice croquette brittle, and vanilla-blueberry crisp — features an image of a creepy looking figure thumbing a ride. from Business Insider
Pearcy pursued the teenager before her death, and Pearcy picked her up on the last afternoon of her life, when she was thumbing a ride with her twin sister and a friend. from The New York Times
Woody Woodpecker, tired and perspiring, is walking down a dusty road of the old West carrying a heavy suitcase. Hearing a stagecoach approaching, he stands in the road thumbing a ride, but the stage passes him by in a swirl of dust. He opens his suitcase, which contains an assortment of artificial limbs used to display women's stockings, wigs, dresses, etc. Woody transforms himself into a young woman by putting on artificial limbs, a wig and a dress.