Sentence examples for riding freight from inspiring English sources

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.

But his own resilience, and skills in finding blind spots and ruses, came from life as a hobo, riding freight trains during the great depression, dodging the "bulls" (railroad police) and scrounging food.

With unlikely swiftness – via riding freight trains and eating out of dumpsters – Sarah is picked up by an East member and spirited off to a derelict house in the woods where the group hides out.

He learned of Central Americans who made the perilous trip north across multiple borders, riding freight trains through Mexico, and realized that this arduous journey could be a compelling backbone for a feature film.

After finding a community among anarchist squatters on the Lower East Side, [Sascha Scatter] decided to forgo college and became obsessed with riding freight trains.... [His zines] combine adventure-travel tales with thoughtful observations about the global economy.

The American hoboes said they weren't hoboes at all ("they're just Mexicans") but clearly they had everything in common with an earlier generation of tramps, recent immigrants riding freights in search of work.

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

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

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.