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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

The “blue boat,” survivors said, eventually took on board all 16 crew members, who had managed to clamber into a pair of auxiliary skiffs attached to the Negra Francisca.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

Marshals clamber over the barrier at Portier to attend to the damaged McLaren of Ayrton Senna, who crashed out of the lead in 1988 when leading by about 50 seconds.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 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

The family man is first to clamber down.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

Nyayien Yow, a widowed mother of five, scrapes together a living by paddling out into the floodwater by canoe, where she clambers up semi-submerged trees to collect firewood for sale in a local market.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2023

Hafen clambers up on a rock and points to where the power line will run — marring the landscape.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2022

In a separate clip, also filmed from the crush of the crowd of several hundred people, a woman clambers over the wall.

From Reuters ● Aug. 19, 2021

With a cheery farewell, Kerry clambers into the driver's seat and heads off, back over the hills towards their Keswick home.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2020

His baby clambers over his sleeping mother to join in, crawling right over Otto’s face to get closer to me.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

Americans have clambered to travel overseas in recent years, and airlines are racing to add service to match their zeal for new experiences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

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

"It would have been directed to their known position and they would have just clambered on board, just like would to get on a boat at sea."

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

"A young man clambered atop the black metal statue," he recalled, "and attached a rope to Dzerzhinsky, but no amount of pulling would bring down this formidable figure."

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

There, I joined a dozen young locals clambering aboard a rustic barge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

I don’t even remember winding the fishing line around my pole, but all of a sudden I was clambering up the bank.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns