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• We clambered up a screed slope.From the entry screed
• Comb the back alleys and clamber up to the Festung Hohensalzburg, the castle to outpomp all castles.2018, Mark Baker, Korina Miller, Lonely Planet Europe on a shoestring. From the entry outpomp
• Octopus clambered about from hole to hole and startled sweep blurred away as we passed.1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2014, page 28. From the entry sweep
• The boy clambers into Turo's arms and lets out a Tarzan yodel.1989 August, Islands: An International Magazine, Santa Barbara, CA, page 67, column 1. From the entry Tarzan yodel
• Chess clambered to his feet, feeling power surge along nerves and muscles, electrifying and painful with his fury.2010, Gemma Files, edited by Sandra Kasturi, A Book of Tongues (The Hexslinger Series; 1), Toronto, Ont.: ChiZine Publications, →ISBN. From the entry inflood
• He clambered back on his feet and grinned at them.1961, Poul Anderson, Three Hearts and Three Lions. From the entry faggot
• A spruce young lieutenant came over, saluted and clambered into the back of our jeep, and we were off.1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth. From the entry spruce
• We clambered over the giant ahuehuete like Lilliputians over the body of a Gulliver, and swashed through the slimy flood.1927, Carleton Beals, Brimstone and Chili, page 137. From the entry swash
• They clambered, squirmed and wriggled to the deck, forcing us steadily backward, though we emptied our pistols into them.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp.…. From the entry squirm
• Gingerly the ape-man clambered up the frail rope.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 208. From the entry gingerly
• Long, thin cupedid beetles clamber over the rotting humus – they are specialists at consuming soft, decaying wood and the fungus that causes that decay.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 158. From the entry cupedid
• This “living dead” industry has been written off time and time again, yet it continues to clamber back to its feet and lumber blindly onward.2012, Gar Smith, Nuclear Roulette. From the entry living dead
• He glanced toward the bow to see the four bow guards rushing back, clambering over slaves with whips and clubs in hand.2012, Troy Denning, Faces of Deception, →ISBN. From the entry bow guard
• The roof was low but she could not clamber up on it ladderless, hauling the long shakes and the nails, the hammer.2005, Molly Gloss, The Jump-Off Creek, page 50. From the entry ladderless
• He clambered on to an apron of rock that held its area out to the sun and began to cast across it.1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, published 2005, page 50. From the entry cast
• He secured a coffee potful of trout fry in the Big Arroyo country and clambered over some of the roughest land in the Sierra ranges.1925 June 14, A. J. Ulam, “Nature Seen At Her Best: Trip To Upper Kaweah By Newspapermen”, in The Fresno Morning Republican, volume LXVII…. From the entry coffee potful
• You clamber up because you boast a pair of sea-eyes, when any babber-lipped black in the waist must have sighted them the sooner.1922, Henry Cottrell Rowland, Hirondelle, page 167. From the entry babber-lipped
• Clambering on to the conning tower, he surveyed the boat and discovered that part of the bow guard had sheered off, leaving a twisted claw of metal.2013, Stephen Snelling, VCs of the First World War, →ISBN. From the entry bow guard
• They had parkoured seven roofs, clambered down a mango tree, and crossed over the bridge in the back of a donkey cart, unnoticed even by the driver.2009 October 19, Stephen Davies, Hacking Timbuktu, Andersen Press, →ISBN, →OL, ch. 24. From the entry parkour
• A rubber-clad Batmanesque superhero arrives on the scene and performs a series of physical feats, clambering up scaffolding to get to the top of the building.2008, Judie Lännan, editor, How Public Service Advertising Works, World Advertising Research Center, page 49. From the entry Batmanesque
• At the southern tip of the island that was shaped like a letter qof they splashed up a stone embankment and clambered stiff and stumbling like unarticulated iron beings.2007 April 22, Michael Chabon, “‘Gentlemen of the Road’”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013. From the entry unarticulated
• She charged as the driver clambered up out of the capsized yellow hulk, slid to the ground, and fled across the field toward the crest of the knoll.2006, Steven Utley, Howard Waldrop, “Crab”, in Deborah Layne, Jay Lake, editors, Polyphony, volume 6, Wheatland Press, →ISBN, page 134. From the entry Tyrannosaurus regina
• On the hot days, he would lie in the shade of a mango and let little Eugenia clamber over his belly and tug at his beard.1980, Bruce Chatwin, The Viceroy of Ouidah, page 146. From the entry mango

Meaning of clamber

1. verb To climb (something) with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion.
2. noun The act of clambering; a difficult or haphazard climb.

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Questions about clamber in a sentence

How do you use clamber in a sentence?

Clamber is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The children clambered over the jungle gym.”

What is a short sentence with clamber?

“We clambered up a screed slope.”

What does clamber mean?

Clamber means to climb (something) with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion.