HIKE in a Sentence

Learn HIKE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

15 example sentences for HIKE, such as:

1. We plan to hike the Rockies this summer.
2. But they won't if we hike into the country.
3. Take a hike like this every once in a while.
4. Her tight skirt hikes up when she sits down.
5. We could go into town but it's a real hike from here.

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 Meanings and Examples of HIKE
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hike
 v.  long walk usually for exercise or pleasure
Classic Sentence:
1  Take a hike like this every once in a while.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  But they won't if we hike into the country.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
3  He told us we had a long night drive ahead of us, and had better be on the hike.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
4  Today, in reeking early August, she wore a man's cap, a skinny fur like a dead cat, a necklace of imitation pearls, a scabrous satin blouse, and a thick cloth skirt hiked up in front.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence:
1  A 30 minute hike up to the base of the ferrate is followed by an unforgettable 2 hour ascent up the cliff.
2  We plan to hike the Rockies this summer.
3  You are now telling me that the massive hike is coincidence and not the industrial revolution?
4  Winning the debate over a tax hike is guaranteed hard slogging.
5  We could go into town but it's a real hike from here.
6  They went on a ten-mile hike through the forest.
7  A disposable actor doesn't really have the leverage to demand a big pay hike.
8  The costs of daily consumer goods have been hiked at two times.
9  Her tight skirt hikes up when she sits down.
10  There are interesting hikes inland, but most ramblers stick to the clifftops.
11  Only by silencing his critics can he hope to introduce the tax hikes, labour reforms and privatisations which were ordered by the Troika but are anathema to most of his party.