climb
verb (used without object)
to go up or ascend, especially by using the hands and feet or feet only.
am climbing
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present progressiveof climb (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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She added: “Maybe, just maybe, I’m getting under his skin a little bit because I am climbing in the polls.”
From The Guardian ● Sep. 10, 2015
"Maybe, just maybe, I'm getting under his skin a little bit because I am climbing in the polls," she said.
From Reuters ● Sep. 9, 2015
If I am hiking up a familiar path near my house in Turin and I think, “I am climbing a hill in Italy,” there is a brief whiff of foreign glamour.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 3, 2014
I shriek when I am climbing at my absolute limit, but never shriek in the warm-up or when trying the moves.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 17, 2013
Suppose, for example, that I am climbing in the Alps, and have had the ill-luck to work myself into a position from which the only escape is by a terrible leap.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
