clamber up
Example Sentences
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From inside the restaurant, the guys would clamber up to the roof, wait for the “all clear” and then get right back to busing tables, washing dishes and cooking.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2024
Beginning in the 1920s, archaeologists began to clamber up these pyramids in the early mornings and look east, toward the rising Sun over the platform, suspecting the complexes might mark particular solar positions.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 1, 2022
Give these birds a vertical surface to clamber up, and they cycle between left foot, right foot and beak as if their mouths were another limb.
From New York Times • May 17, 2022
Along a popular forest trail a 10-minute drive from the bustle of central Wellington, Jonathan Moulds takes breaks from his run to clamber up banks and check rat traps.
From Seattle Times • May 11, 2017
Werner and Jutta sift through glistening piles of black dust; they clamber up mountains of rusting machines.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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