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The roar of engines fills the night air in China's Chongqing city as tourists awkwardly clamber onto gleaming motorbikes and cling to muscular drivers to star in personalised videos.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

Driver Andriy, 53, is one of the first Ukrainian faces many of the freed soldiers see as they clamber onto his bus.

From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026

Those lucky enough to snap out of psychosis and regain touch with the tangible world are now building support groups online to help others clamber out.

From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2026

They also clamber on rooftops and through landscaping, causing damage and leaving waste.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2025

No shadow came crawling through moonlight seeking the rent through which it might clamber back into its own domain.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Orban is faced with economic stagnation this year and a widening budget deficit as the country clambers out of Europe's highest inflation rates that peaked above 25% in the first quarter.

From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2023

Out clambers the man who runs security for Esh Kodesh and the surrounding outposts.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2023

Staticky, menacing voices croak from old radios and Michael Burgess’s camera beckons us into underground tunnels and clambers up walls on the heels of the villain and his victims.

From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2021

Amid a torrential downpour, a broken man clambers up a slope and finds himself face to face with a large, growling dog.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2020

On her first night in Casa Rosa, Zola climbs the narrow, ziggy stone steps to the tower and clambers through the tripping door up to the balcony.

From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech

When the smoke briefly cleared, she says she passed the injured children down to people below and clambered past fire and rubble towards the school gate, where she saw a crowd of parents.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Several members equipped with climbing harnesses clambered up a small tree on the school’s front lawn and dangled from its limbs on climbing ropes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

The three, adrenaline pumping, clambered through the pancaked wreckage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Duchamp clambered into a taxi, packed up his canvas and lugged it home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Her face was twisted in an ugly expression, and Ophie clambered to her feet just as the bedroom door slammed open.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

Obviously, clambering up and down the dangerously steep pass, ferrying goods on horseback or by mule or — for a few wacky, experimental months in the mid-1850s, Army camels — wasn’t workable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

After clambering up three flights of a dark apartment-building stairwell, I entered Higatei, which celebrates all things awamori, an Okinawan rice-based spirit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025

"I feel good; a little nervous, but I think it'll be fine. We'll hold on and give it everything!" said Nina Beeler, before clambering on board Cobra, an eight-year-old Swiss Brown cow.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

Video footage shared on social media shows people clambering out of the overturned aircraft, with fire crews spraying it with foam.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2025

Men ran from him and he ran after them, clambering up over the rail to the next ship and then the next.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin