stowaway
IPA: stˈoʊʌweɪ
noun
- A person who hides on board a ship, train, etc. so as to get a free passage.
stow away
IPA: stˈoʊʌweɪ
verb
- (transitive) to stow or secure aloof in a safe place
- (intransitive) to obtain passage (on a ship or similar vehicle) by secreting oneself inside before departure
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Examples of "stowaway" in Sentences
- I once was an unwitting stowaway.
- She used to hide in ships like a little stowaway.
- Eventually he is caught and exposed as a stowaway.
- Leo Corbett was a stowaway aboard the space colony.
- Barbara accidentally becomes a stowaway on his ship.
- A stowaway is a stowaway, no matter how you look at him.
- At 16 years of age, Becke was a stowaway on a ship bound for Samoa.
- A related topic is illegally passing a border oneself as a stowaway.
- Also, Jesse, a stowaway, is found aboard adding a fifth person on the trip.
- Cass' stowaway is discovered and he is turned over to immigration officials.
- The stowaways are found and Plesin discusses the predicament with the captain.
- By the way, after the coal had been shovelled off the train by the 'stowaway' miners, the
- He'd had to make a drastic change in his estimate of the situation the instant he saw that the stowaway was a girl.
- By the way, after the coal had been shovelled off the train by the 'stowaway' miners, the Detective-Sergeant raced down to
- Sunday is Mr. Rogers 'pick of days for a lengthy hearing, and returning from church, he came directly to the "stowaway" rooms at the Murray Hill
- Dressed as a dead man in a giant's suit, the golem escapes the country in a coffin, keeping alive hope -- and a 19-year-old stowaway from the Germans.
- A few hours later, after being interrogated by the ships security officer to whom she said nothing, and officially identified as a stowaway, Courtney found herself alone in a hospital-like room toward the stern of the ship.
- Later on they went to "Snow Lodge" and helped solve a mystery, while on the houseboat, _Bluebird_, where they spent one vacation, they found a "stowaway," and, if you want to know what that is, I advise you to read the book.
- The story was written as a cautionary tale to advise boys like Dick never to go to sea as a stowaway, which is effectually what Dick did, and was inspired by a real case, in which the boy was found dying after only thirteen days at sea.
- An escaped convict from one of her Britannic Majesty's penal colonies, a "stowaway" in the hold of an Australian ship, he had landed penniless in San Francisco, fearful of contact with his more honest countrymen already there, and liable to detection at any moment.
Examples of "stow-away" in Sentences
- Enjoy the dry, crisp mornings in AZ--can I stow-away?
- I discovered there was still one stow-away... in my underwear.
- The FBI believes that the stow-away died during the intercontinental flight.
- HARRIS: And finally this morning, a stow-away cat is getting star treatment in France.
- An investigation is now underway to determine just exactly where the stow-away got on the plane.
- I went over to her desk and asked what was going on; she seemed reluctant to betray her little stow-away.
- Philippines proposed to take me and my baggage on board without the necessary red tape, in fact to make me a stow-away, but I refused.
- The royal stow-away had snored through much of the dangerous and eventful voyage from Sofold, but when she awoke Ethan would have another problem to deal with.
- He seems also to have eaten our Malysian trumpet snail (you go, girl!), but I'm worried that, as it was somehow a stow-away from when that tank was sick, it may have infected/affected Johnny.
- Everybody living in the house were attracted by today's apple cake, and so I name this version for the dragon who has travelled with me like a stow-away in the computer backpack from Greenport, Long Island and all the way to Volda.
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