Example Sentences

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In 2016, geologist Rowan Martindale was hiking across a hillside in Morocco when something unusual caught her eye.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

Suzanne Rees, 80, was hiking with fellow passengers of the Coral Adventure ship to a lookout spot on Lizard Island, in the Great Barrier Reef, on October 25.

From Barron's • Nov. 2, 2025

Niclas Brundell witnessed the incident as he was hiking in the area with his wife.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2025

Travel journalist Chloe Berge bemoaned the buzzing interruption of a drone while she was hiking the Faroe Islands’ remote coastline during the pandemic.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 4, 2024

All this was of some interest to me, for I was hiking in about the same spot as that initial mountain lion sighting.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson