Sentence examples for ride freight from inspiring English sources

If you could climb and run, if you liked jumping and bouncing and falling, then you could ride freight trains.

Then, the morning after her 17th birthday, she runs away to ride freight trains across the States with just her guitar on her back, until she ends up in New Orleans, falls in with a pack of itinerant musicians and, finally, ends up making an album that constitutes a feministic reimagining of American roots music.

The family who raised her were "typical Midwest drunks" and she dropped out of school at 17 years old to be alone, earning her GED and eventually packing up to ride freight trains and travel.

Our buddy Pat was in town and wanted to go back down to Denver, so we told him we'd meet him at the train yard the next day and ride freight all the way to Denver.

Heads and hearts ReprintsHe palled around with Woody Guthrie, riding freight trains and hanging with hobos.

"I tried to use my knowledge of riding freight trains," Ellison recalled in 1954.

He rode freight cars on his journey and took odd jobs, including that of circus clown.

Sekaer immigrated to the United States from Denmark as a teenager and at first rode freight trains around the country and took odd jobs.

After the ceremony, General Mulholland and several officers visiting from Fort Bragg, N.C., rode freight elevators to the 90th floor of 1 World Trade Center.

At 13, he left his home in Oakland, California, to escape an abusive stepfather, becoming an itinerant labourer – a hobo – who rode freight trains to follow the sun, finding work and shelter where he could along the way.

Leaving Harvard after two years in 1938, Seeger hitchhiked and rode freight trains around the country, gathering country ballads, work songs, and hymns and developing a remarkable virtuosity on the five-string banjo.