Verb (used without object) : We crept up and peeked over the wall. ,The automobile crept up the hill. Time just seems to creep along on these hot summer days. ,The prisoners crept up on the guard and knocked him out. ,creeping inflation; creeping socialism. ,The ships crept for their anchor chains. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : That horror movie gave me the creeps. From Dictionary.com.
Q Anatoly Kulikov, the Interior Minister's, charge that Lebed was engaged in what he called creeping coup plots. From Wordnik.com. [Briefing By Mccurry Sosnik And Lockhart] Reference
A new word creeping from mouth to mouth among the Common. From Wordnik.com. [The Day's Work - Volume 1] Reference
Creep, and Creep, now and then the creeping is too fast and the brakes have to be applied. From Wordnik.com. [THE LAST FLIGHT] Reference
A friend-of-a-friend had seen it and declared it was "photo-shopped", a new word creeping into our lexicon. From Wordnik.com. [Hydrapinion] Reference
It is commonly called the creeping snowberry, but I like better its official title of chiogenes, -- the snow-born. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilderness] Reference
The creeping are the missiles coming and now aimed at Taiwan. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Republicans Take the Stage in Iowa for Last Debate Before Caucus - January 15, 2000] Reference
The creeping is the Chinese presence now in the Panama Canal zone. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Republicans Take the Stage in Iowa for Last Debate Before Caucus - January 15, 2000] Reference
The widow looked at him with a pleased expression creeping over her face. From Wordnik.com. [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference
Yep, I answered, with another midwestern word creeping into my vocabulary. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Dude] Reference
Julebba stood with it upraised, an incredulous expression creeping into her lambent eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Death Stalks The Ruins]
An answer rushed to my lips and I was conscious of a mischievous expression creeping over my face. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
I also found this small site about a plant called creeping thyme, if you are not too busy check it out. From Wordnik.com. [Rumors | CurveHouse.com] Reference
‘And you untied me, Aunt Hatt, and —’ she broke off, a terrified expression creeping into her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Sweet Danger]
This week we look at some new and old terms creeping into and out of conversations about location technology. From Wordnik.com. [All Points Blog] Reference
In her basement office, she recalls a creeping sense of doom as the gallery prepared for the Caravaggio show. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
Guy looked on her long and earnestly, an expression creeping over his face which Philippa could not understand. From Wordnik.com. [The Well in the Desert An Old Legend of the House of Arundel] Reference
The Brown Government is steadily coming to symbolise what can only be described as a creeping national malaise. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
There are three types of movement of the grain: creeping, which is how sand dunes move in the North West of Kuwait. From Wordnik.com. [Arab Times Kuwait English Daily] Reference
` There's a kind of creeping malignancy about it. '. From Wordnik.com. [Last Chance to See]
The wall will eventually be covered with some kind of creeping plant. From Wordnik.com. [Carolina Bank Site Plan -- Update II] Reference
Wrt to the 'creeping' into Canada, the shrieking occurs on both sides. From Wordnik.com. [Let me explain the word "dissent" to you, Mathew.] Reference
I didn't know exactly what was in them but it was kind of creeping me out. From Wordnik.com. [File this under things I wish I didn't know] Reference
Is federalizing the cost of health care tantamount to "creeping" socialism?. From Wordnik.com. [Health Care] Reference
You can see the water kind of creeping up J Street here in Cedar Rapids behind me. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2008] Reference
Occasionally, the "creeping" aspect has been replaced by giant leaps toward a socialist state. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Roots of the Banking Crisis] Reference
Occasionally, the 'creeping' aspect has been replaced by giant leaps toward a socialist state. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Roots of the Banking Crisis] Reference
That terminology is just an example of the kind of creeping authoritarianism and it's obnoxious. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary: We Need A "Commander-In-Chief" For The Economy] Reference
"That would be a kind of creeping Greece-ification of German economic policy - we're not going to do it.". From Wordnik.com. [German Retail Sales Show Improvement] Reference
He was so happy to be there that it radiated off of him in waves, and it was kind of creeping us all out. From Wordnik.com. [New York In An Afternoon] Reference
It's almost -- it's very disturbing because it's fundamentally something that is kind of creeping back in. From Wordnik.com. [Presidents Remarks On Religious Liberties] Reference
The capacity to shop at Wal-Mart albeit in the dead of night is symptomatic of a kind of creeping numbness. From Wordnik.com. [Last night | clusterflock] Reference
And you're--what does that tell you about this kind of creeping political correctness in the United States?. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Curb Your Enthusiasm] Reference
The hole was quite a large one, with long grass and some kind of creeping plant growing across the entrance. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Banshee Towers]
If your arrows are missing high or low, you've probably compromised your anchor point by "creeping" forward at the shot. From Wordnik.com. [Surprise Big Bucks With a Backup Stand] Reference
The plant is a kind of creeping or climbing shrub which runs along the ground, or climbs up other shrubs and short trees. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
It’s been around as a verb since the 1200s; it’s not some new word creeping into the language that should be stopped. From Wordnik.com. [loan is a verb! « Motivated Grammar] Reference
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