Wondering how to use Clamber in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as climb or mount.
Clamber meaning
To climb (something) with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion.
Using Clamber
- The main meaning on this page is: To climb (something) with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion.
- Useful related words include: climb, mount, scramble, shin.
- In the example corpus, clamber often appears in combinations such as: to clamber, and clamber, clamber up.
Context around Clamber
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 11 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Clamber
- In this selection, "clamber" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pets, packs, eekhoff, aboard and down stand out and add context to how "clamber" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as they clamber to prove and attempts to clamber aboard trucks. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "clamber" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with clamber
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A dzo and a cows hear her, and clamber down to the shed. (13 words)
The migrants used a maintenance ladder to clamber aboard the ferry at high tide, according to Mr Vennin. (18 words)
He'd squeeze through fences, clamber up fire escapes and wander down dark alleyways in search of graffiti. (18 words)
I picked a point in the horizon to gawk at and stared into the void, waiting for the two minutes to end, so I could clamber out of this frozen hellhole and live the rest of my normal life in peace. (41 words)
And so for months, candidates have not just rushed to court union leaders; they have also been holding round-table discussions with members, joining picket lines and tweeting in solidarity as they clamber to prove their affinity with workers. (39 words)
More than a third (36%) have used, and shared, the same hand towel at home for multiple uses, while 27% happily let pets clamber on furniture and bedding without disinfecting them, according to the OnePoll figures. (36 words)
Example sentences (17)
A dzo and a cows hear her, and clamber down to the shed.
A message would arrive from HR reminding him that the bonus pot was empty and it was time to clamber back on the bike.
I’d try and stop them but they’d ignore me and clamber over me, saying ‘well, I'm already in now’.
I picked a point in the horizon to gawk at and stared into the void, waiting for the two minutes to end, so I could clamber out of this frozen hellhole and live the rest of my normal life in peace.
Thankfully, she righted herself slowly which allowed us to clamber up and scramble out of the cafe and up on to the deck.
Incredibly, a group of 15 of the passengers managed to inflate a lifeboat and clamber aboard, before being rescued by a nearby vessel.
More than a third (36%) have used, and shared, the same hand towel at home for multiple uses, while 27% happily let pets clamber on furniture and bedding without disinfecting them, according to the OnePoll figures.
And so for months, candidates have not just rushed to court union leaders; they have also been holding round-table discussions with members, joining picket lines and tweeting in solidarity as they clamber to prove their affinity with workers.
Battery packs clamber up a conveyor belt before dropping into a flame-proof chamber, where they are crushed into gray metallic mush, a cocktail containing the car fuel of the future.
Migrants have turned to the clandestine sea route after abandoning attempts to clamber aboard trucks crossing from France to Britain via the Channel Tunnel or on ferries.
The 58th edition of the world’s oldest international art exhibition opened to the public on Saturday after a professional preview that saw far too many of us clamber from show to show, cocktail to cocktail.
The migrants used a maintenance ladder to clamber aboard the ferry at high tide, according to Mr Vennin.
Video replays showed Eekhoff clamber back on to his bike clutching a damaged shoulder, before tailing vehicles in order propel himself up the road.
A 30-foot Phanatic Climbing Wall, gives fans (in harnesses) the chance to clamber around graphic depictions of Philadelphia's landmark buildings.
He'd squeeze through fences, clamber up fire escapes and wander down dark alleyways in search of graffiti.
Several council members noted there is no public clamber to have a pedestrian bridge built in the park.
The score remained tied, but they had still, in a way, dug themselves a hole that they had to find a way to clamber out of.
Common combinations with clamber
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to clamber 6×
- and clamber 3×
- clamber up 3×
- clamber aboard 3×
- clamber back 2×
- clamber out 2×
- clamber to 2×