stowaway

Definitions

Examples

• There are stowaways in the trunk of the warden’s car who want to take the story in one direction.

• Key sources of snakes into New Zealand include stowaways in cargo ships, smugglers at airports, and enterprising swimmers.

• Only some stowaways will manage to make permanent homes in new territory.

• But when England began trading with the Orient, the cockroach grew venturesome, and began putting to sea as a stowaway.

• If Bothwell were on board the ship as a stowaway the aspect of affairs was more serious even than we had thought.

• More likely to be a stowaway on a merchantman and then roustabout on a cattle boat, or some such thing.

• Two years before this he had been a stowaway from England to America, and he was not discovered for several days.

• The Captain's gaze settled on the stowaway's spotless white shirt and collar.