Nautical freeloader

Usage examples of stowaway.

He was an ugly, rattish man, this stowaway, and his eyes glared up from beneath the twisted visor of his shabby cap.

At checkpoints on major highways and rail lines, traffic was topped and carefully inspected for stowaway clusters of bees, with small result.

He was in the last place a brakeman would be apt to search for a stowaway.

By using an autopod to return a stowaway, a spaceship saved the time, expense, and red tape of an extra landing and liftoff.

Last week, five Haitian stowaways seeking work in America arrived on a freighter in Fort Lauderdale.

As both countries quarreled, the ship sloshed back and forth across the Gulf Stream, the stowaways its wretched prisoners.

Last Friday, the hot and hungry stowaways escaped from their stinking cell.

Somehow I feel better about the stowaways on the loose than I do about Rupert Murdoch.

All it took was one stark, indelible image on television: Haitian stowaways, manacled and caged on the hot deck of a freighter.

The five stowaways were removed from the freighter and brought to the Haitian consulate.

The driver started shouting, then turned to crack his cartwhip at the stowaway.

And he spent solitary hours watching the loading and unloading of banana boats that shipped to Central America, plotting of course a stowaway voyage, for he was certain in some foreign city he could land a good-paying job.

It was a handy little vehicle for outer hull inspection and repair in free fall, and for dumping detected stowaways back to their POEs.

Others, known as lysogenic phages, became genetic stowaways, hiding within the bacteria and inserting their genetic messages into the host DNA.

Even then, in daylight, they had slouched low, to avoid being seen by passing motorists who might signal the driver about his stowaways.