(v. i.) To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively.
(n.) The act of clambering.
(v. t.) To ascend by climbing with difficulty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hull City clambered out of the relegation zone and consigned Paul Lambert to a half-century of Premier League defeats as Aston Villa manager in the process.
(2) When I clambered onto the fishing boat after the last men left, it occurred to me that an armed smuggler might be hiding below deck, waiting to sail the boat back to Libya.
(3) David Cameron spoke of the "thickness" of the glass ceiling she smashed through, again as if other women had been clambering merrily through the gaping governmental hole she had thoughtfully crafted ever since.
(4) It takes time for Dhaka's ramshackle emergency services to arrive, so hundreds of locals clamber over and through the rubble, tearing at the concrete blocks and mangled metal with their hands.
(5) Another 14-25% of locomotion was across substrates by pronograde clambering and vertical clambering.
(6) The staff at the Peacocks store in Pontypridd were attempting to be as cheerful as always, laughing and joking as they clambered up a ladder to tape a new sale sign ("biggest ever – 20-70% of everything") to the window.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest People clamber out of Bataclan concert hall to escape gunfire .
(8) When the eminent biologist TH Huxley met Gladstone for the first time in 1877, in the company of Darwin , he exclaimed afterwards: “Why, put him in the middle of a moor, with nothing in the world but his shirt, and you could not prevent him being anything he liked.” This is my view of Cicero: drop him into Westminster or Washington or any other political culture and he would instantly begin clambering to the top.
(9) An impossibly tall ladder to a higher roof beckons and Prekrasnyy clambers up without hesitation.
(10) I began the long climb up Swirral Edge, a ridge that gets progressively steeper and narrower until two-legged runners were reduced to clamberers on all fours.
(11) That all I could hear – BANG – and I thought, for fuck’s sake, I had a headache, Tel.” One of the men then clambered through the tiny hole to jemmy open 73 of the 550 safe deposit boxes, which they ransacked.
(12) Beliefs The fourth hurdle is more difficult to clamber over.
(13) I still had the capability to clamber on to the cattle trains without help.
(14) At a lavish reception at the Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Rauch lurked in the shadows ("an artist's workshop should always be installed on the fringe"), while Lybke clambered onto the seat of a velvet chair and did a comic turn.
(15) Clambering on the steps with a handful of groundnuts is little Ezra, 15 months old, the only child in the village with shoes and the son of Loyce's daughter Brenda Achao - who unusually has her mother's surname.
(16) It has been like this all night, it has been very difficult.” Desperate migrant scenes at Calais will need hard heads to find fair solutions Read more Another migrant managed to break the cord on the back of a nearby lorry and was trying to clamber on board before he was confronted by the French driver.
(17) The former Juventus striker used all of his experience to draw the foul from Pablo Contreras who clambered all over him as he tried to latch onto Brett Emerton's hopeful cross.
(18) Visitors roam like herds of lobotomised oxen in search of nourishment, from clambering on a net over some flowerbeds inside Brazil’s giant climbing frame, to the touch-screen excitement of playing “Lithuania or not?” (a game of swiping national dishes into a digital shopping basket).
(19) Air France-KLM’s human resources manager, Xavier Broseta, had his shirt ripped off and, wearing just his tie and trousers, had to clamber over a wire fence to safety after hundreds of striking workers stormed the board meeting on Monday in protest at the planned job cuts.
(20) Arriving at the foot of a 100ft cliff – more than a day after Layali was born – some clambered to safety, while a Wessex helicopter with a union jack emblazoned on its nose rescued the rest.