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Example sentences for "hitched"

Lexicographically close words:
historyes; histrionic; hit; hita; hitch; hitches; hitching; hith; hithe; hither
  1. We were bound to have meat, and agreed to leave him one hog, and then yoked up a pair of oxen and hitched them to a wagon.

  2. A buggy being procured for Captain Taylor and myself, our horses were hitched to it and, with the assistance of Tom Johnson and John A.

  3. Men yelled at horses as they hitched them to the wagons.

  4. Molly had hitched the horse, in manly and knowing fashion, and then seated herself on the kitchen chair beside Lucindy; but the attitude seemed not to suit her, and presently she rose and lay quietly down at full length on the grass.

  5. While she was absent, a smart wagon drove up to the gate, and a young man alighted from it, hitched his horse, and knocked at the front door.

  6. Then he hitched himself around, with his hand on the hip of his old horse, swaying violently with the jerk of the gait.

  7. Next day the trail outfit came along and so I hitched up another team.

  8. Another time I hitched up another team, one of which, a favourite mustang-chaser, had never been driven.

  9. On one occasion I for some reason displaced the near horse of my driving team and hitched up another.

  10. His buggy horse stood hitched by the curb downstairs.

  11. I kin see him plain as day--he's got an old cowbell hitched to his neck; and he's shy a couple of feathers out of one wing.

  12. Before the constable had the horse hitched the squire was out of the buggy and on his way up the footpath, going at a brisker step than the squire usually traveled.

  13. A large lanyard should be clove-hitched round a large toggle and a strap passed round it below the toggle.

  14. Turn every alternate knittle and secure the remainder down by a turn of twine or a smooth yarn hitched close up, which acts as the weft in weaving.

  15. Claire hitched her shoulders in the true French shrug.

  16. Mrs Fanshawe hitched herself into her corner, planted her feet more firmly on the provisionary footstool, and folded her hands on her knee.

  17. Mrs Fanshawe hitched herself still further into her corner and smiled a lazy, quizzical smile.

  18. She hitched a shawl more closely over her shoulders, and called aloud in a high imperious tone-- "Mason!

  19. Adding up nine, six, two, he found that it made seventeen, so he hitched up his mule and went home rejoicing.

  20. A farmer hitched his team to a telephone-pole.

  21. Altho hitched to a delivery-wagon the mule wheeled about, took aim, and kicked twice.

  22. She ain' gwine budge lessen she's hitched up.

  23. Once more the mules were hitched to the tow-line, and started off.

  24. Then Sammy had passed the rope through a pulley block, obtained no one knew where, and had hitched to the cable the goat, Billy Bumps.

  25. The driver was leading them from the stable where they had taken shelter from the downpour, and they were soon hitched to the long towing rope.

  26. Hatfield's horses were hitched just around the bend in the road.

  27. But these sensations only lent wings to Buddy's feet, and handicapped as he was, with his rifle double hitched over his shoulders, he fairly sailed.

  28. A strange horse with a strange saddle was hitched to the Turner fence; beside it was an old mare with a boy's saddle, and as Chad came through the gate a familiar voice called him cheerily by name.

  29. Another thought now lifted him to his feet with surprising quickness and sent him on a run down the river where his horse was hitched in the bushes.

  30. He hitched his gun forward a little, pushed the door shut behind him, and began to search that room.

  31. And where the trail forked on the farther side he met Estan Medina driving a big, lathery bay horse hitched to a shiny, new covered buggy.

  32. But Abe grew up without a trace of his father's sense of humor, picked out the strongest girl he could find for a wife and hitched her to the plow!

  33. He hitched himself to the plow and made Abe seize the handles.

  34. The little girl did not stir from her place, and did not raise her eyes, from time to time she gave the cradle a gentle shove, or timidly hitched up on her shoulder her chemise which had slipped down; her bare legs hung motionless.

  35. Yes, she did; and it's packed in that trunk hitched onto the step there.

  36. Yes, if that fetch-taked nigger ever gits the hoss hitched up," Margaret spoke up.

  37. I can remember how his hair waved, though I wasn't but sixteen at the time; and the day when he hitched my hoss for me, all the girls looked down-trod.

  38. Boyle hitched his hip, throwing the handle of his pistol into sight.

  39. The railroad company, foreseeing the desire to be gone, had arranged a long string of coaches, with two engines hitched up and panting to set out.

  40. They were merely a pair of white ruffle-cuffed absurdities, hitched together at the top with a narrow band, and they did not come quite down to my knees.

  41. A few moments before, Dinan's blacksmith had ordered a high-strung bay horse to be hitched up, and while this was being done, the two men strolled up the street to an adjacent cigar store.

  42. Dinan ordered the horse called the gray horse and sometimes the white, to be hitched to the buggy.

  43. At three o'clock in the morning I hitched a white horse to a light wagon and drove to the corner, where I found King.

  44. I got the horse out all right, after muffling its hoofs, and led it to the wagon in the alley, where I hitched it up.

  45. He had hitched himself to one of the poplars, and now leaned against this, his head bent on his shoulder at the sickening angle of a man hanged, his eyes glassy, his mouth open, a trickle of saliva flowing from one corner.

  46. He hitched himself over and leaned towards her.

  47. There are old cities with a worn-out kind of elegance, like that of superannuated horses of good breed, hitched to an old-fashioned barouche.

  48. A large gray horse hitched to the hack in which we rode to the Gleason evidently felt the same, for at first he balked, and later tried to run away.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hitched" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.