Sentence examples for could be climbed from inspiring English sources

Based on the "impossible architecture" of M C Escher – the Dutch artist who drew ascending staircases that could be climbed for an eternity – Monument Valley is a "zen-like" game about "exploration, reflection and forgiveness", according to its designers.

That quarter of an hour gave the Forest players an insight into why Kevin Keegan once said of Shankly that "he made you feel any mountain could be climbed".

The other thing is that while standing on top of Everest, I looked across the valley, towards the other great peak Makalu, and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed.

Told by local villagers that any attempt to reach the summit would be fruitless because no one had ever done it before, the Americans became even more determined to show the Mexicans it could be climbed.

As the east side was considered virtually impregnable, only the west side was fortified; if the Rock could be climbed from the east, an attacker could evade the fortifications and descend directly into the town.

"While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed," Sir Edmund Hillary told me once during an interview.

Having survived what he called "the perfect storm" of the last few years, he said he thought chief executive tenure could be climbing for the first time in quite a while.

But the recent sale of a $48 million condo at the Plaza, the highest price for a single condo unit on record in New York City, according to Jonathan J. Miller, the president of the appraisal firm Miller Samuel, has raised the question of whether the Plaza could be climbing back into the ring.

In my childhood this could be climbing 10 different trees before the sun passed the spire of the parish church or walking out the shape of a square on the map of our town when going to the shops and back to get the messages for my mum.

They could be climbing in your windows right now.

The pondering leads to anxiety, which leads in turn to the student gazing longingly out the window at a real maple tree, wishing she could be climbing it.