clamber
verb (used with or without object)
to climb, using both feet and hands; climb with effort or difficulty.
clambers
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present tense formof clamber (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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A hiker clambers across a scorched landscape of ash, his footsteps crunching on charred earth as he peers over a ridge at a burn scar pocked with blackened stumps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2025
In another clandestine location, a team clambers out of a German-made Bergepanzer armoured recovery vehicle.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2024
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
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
He trots alongside a freight car and clambers aboard, holding his bread.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
