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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
clamber .
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Examples
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Instead, a frenziedly spirited troupe of backing dancers is left to pick up the slack, while Britney clambers aboard various moving parts of machinery and is wheeled around like an ancient maiden aunt being taken for her morning perambulation in a bath chair.
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For "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know", she clambers gingerly on to a swing and is winched several feet above ground like a shipping crate.
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Christopher Henley clambers, catlike, around a two-level set as the schemer "Joxer" Daly in Washington Shakespeare Company's "Juno and the Paycock."
Backstage at Washington Shakespeare Company's 'Juno and the Paycock' 2011
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That's well and good, but isn't this more like a deck steward tossing a life preserver to an overboard drowning passenger, who after being saved clambers back onboard, returning the life preserver to the steward while commanding him to fetch him a Bloody Mary?
Raymond J. Learsy: CNN Takes "Occupy Wall Street" Not Very Seriously Raymond J. Learsy 2011
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Depp is his usual mincing self but Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley have walked the plank when aboard clambers Penélope Cruz, as a duplicitous old flame of Jack's.
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He clambers to his feet, bows over my hand, and nods.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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While I'm not the kind of guy who usually clambers for a sequel to a stand-alone novel, I think there is enough meat left on the bone at the end of the novel to warrant a follow-up of some kind, because I'd be interested to see how the characters in the final chapter carry on.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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He clambers to his feet, bows over my hand, and nods.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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While I'm not the kind of guy who usually clambers for a sequel to a stand-alone novel, I think there is enough meat left on the bone at the end of the novel to warrant a follow-up of some kind, because I'd be interested to see how the characters in the final chapter carry on.
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In driving rain Karski clambers on to a British patrol boat at sea off Gibraltar, awed by the Navy's "display of power and alertness".
Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World by Jan Karski – review 2011
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