How to Use hike in a Sentence

hike

1 of 2 verb
  • We hiked some of the shorter trails.
  • The state keeps hiking the tax on cigarettes.
  • I hiked myself onto the ledge.
  • We spent the afternoon hiking around the lake.
  • She hiked 10 miles in the hot desert sun.
  • There's talk of hiking the eligibility age.
  • Our neighbors spent their vacation hiking the Rockies.
  • The delays could force Ryanair to hike ticket fares by up to 10%.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Wednesday marked the first time in more than a year the Fed has not hiked rates at a meeting.
    Yuri Kageyama, ajc, 15 June 2023
  • He’d been drawn to the area for decades to hike and purchased a weekend home in Sperryville in 2012.
    Madison Rudolf, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Winter also loves to go on walks and hikes with his dad.
    Emily J. Shiffer, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2024
  • In the early 1900s, tourists would arrive by train to hike to the first-magnitude spring.
    Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 9 June 2023
  • A day of hiking up snowcapped mountains might end with a warm dip in a hot spring.
    Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The 31-year-old stepdad began to hike back to their vehicle to find help.
    Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 25 June 2023
  • Investors still expect the Fed to hike rates one—if not two—more times this year to rein in price pressures.
    Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 30 June 2023
  • Her in-laws, visiting from out of state, hiked in with her husband to meet her.
    Chadd Cripe, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Disney to hike Disney+ prices again in a quest for streaming profits.
    Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The friends had been hiking for about three or four days and had another three or four to go, the rescue group said.
    Sara Smart, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Avoid hiking through tall grass and dense brush where ticks like to congregate 2.
    Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2023
  • In addition, hiking from the rim to the river and back in one day isn't encouraged.
    CBS News, 25 May 2023
  • Four plays later, Humbert broke the plane on a 2-yard burst, hiking the lead to three touchdowns.
    Wright Wilson, Detroit Free Press, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The Fed could very well hike again in June — and that would cause the financial markets to lose their collective mind.
    Josh Boak, ajc, 6 May 2023
  • The other two teams eventually grab their keys and hike back down too.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 17 May 2023
  • Disney hiked the price for ad-free Disney+ access to $11 a month in December, from $8.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 10 Aug. 2023
  • So Catherine spent five months hiking the 2,650 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail.
    Lauren Goode, WIRED, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The best way to experience the gorge (and the only way, at least for now) is to hike up it, starting at the park’s main entrance on North Franklin Street.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2023
  • In the past, crews had to hike through miles of trails to inspect growth around power lines and other infrastructure.
    Richard Danforth, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • With most of my mountain hiking over the rocky mountains of New Hampshire, this is one of my favorite features in a trekking pole.
    Lindsey Lapointe, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • There's plenty of time left to get outside and hike that trail, camp that campground, and bike that epic road before the chill of autumn creeps into the air.
    WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The Fed has been hiking rates since March of last year and has driven up its target rate, at times very aggressively, to 5% to 5.25%.
    Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 17 July 2023
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hike

2 of 2 noun
  • We went for a hike around the lake.
  • The school lost a number of students after the tuition hike.
  • Here's our guide to all the best hikes, shopping and things to do there.
    The Arizona Republic, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Where the road meets up with Gooseneck, the route swings back north for the return leg of the hike.
    Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The hikes are part of a wider increase in prices by drug makers.
    Chris Morris, Fortune Well, 18 Jan. 2024
  • On some days, hundreds of skiers and snowboarders make the 3-mile hike to the ravine.
    USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Cowles Mountain, the tallest peak in the city of San Diego at 1,593 feet, is one of the most popular hikes in the county.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The first showed the mother-daughter duo on a hike together.
    Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The Fed’s decision to restart hikes depends on what data show in the coming weeks and months.
    Bryan Mena, CNN, 16 June 2023
  • For him and for his colleagues, the pay hike will be transformative.
    Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
  • One of the hike’s orienting landmarks was the steeple of a Latter-day Saints temple.
    Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Run, bike, hike — be as active as can be in these leggings that come in loads of colors.
    Kristine Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 10 Feb. 2024
  • While the hikes listed above are dog-friendly, most require your dog stay on-leash.
    Lisa Bloch, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Rugged night hikes are not suitable for children younger than 10.
    Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The drive itself is short, at seven miles, but there are 12 viewpoints along the way and many of them require a short hike.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2023
  • Howard said community hikes were vital to bring the trail to life.
    Alysa Guffey, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • Courtesy Jamie Raskin Raskin and his family on a hike in 2018.
    Andrea Stanley, Men's Health, 21 June 2023
  • Consumers are feeling the impact of 10 rate hikes by the Federal Reserve over the past year and a half.
    Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2023
  • The Brentwood father of two was excited by the wage hikes promised in Senate Bill 525.
    Cathie Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 2 Feb. 2024
  • How will a pause in interest rate hikes affect the stock market?
    Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 14 June 2023
  • Enter the specter of inflation and the Fed’s aggressive rate hikes.
    Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Wall Street is betting on a rate hike at its next meeting on July 25-26.
    Joe McDonald, ajc, 19 June 2023
  • No antivenom was available at the remote site, a five-day hike from the nearest town.
    Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Senate leaders, however, want to first build a case to the public for tax hikes.
    Erin Cox, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
  • On the other end of the spectrum, some Sun Belt cities are still suffering scorching price hikes.
    Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 16 June 2023
  • In your downtime, Gwyneth invites you to lay by her pool or embark on one of her favorite hikes.
    Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Aug. 2023
  • This is the perfect time for excursions to local villages or hikes on the island.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Chipotle has serving up several price hikes over the last few years.
    Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The Fed needed to step back and pause in June to judge where the economy is going after the steady round of earlier rate hikes.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 14 June 2023
  • Thankfully, there’s still time to save on either plan ahead of Disney’s price hike.
    Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 11 Oct. 2023

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