CREEP in a Sentence

creep

 v.  move slowly; move stealthily or cautiously

1  Yes, it was good to creep back into bed and know that Ellen was abroad in the night and everything was right.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III

2  There entered with her the faint fragrance of lemon verbena sachet, which seemed always to creep from the folds of her dresses, a fragrance that was always linked in Scarlett's mind with her mother.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV

3  To make matters worse, a vague distrust of those in high places had begun to creep over the civilian population.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI

4  The bullheaded expression began to creep back.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII

5  Because Bonnie liked to ride on the front of his saddle, he stayed out of doors more and the sunburn began to creep across his dark face, making him swarthier than ever.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII

6  Don't let it creep up on you and drag you down.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3

7  If a girl really kissed him, he'd creep out of his den and be human.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X

8  On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.

My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII

9  Do you keep him under your rifle while I creep in behind, through the bush, and take him alive.

The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21

10  The latter cast an impatient look at his neighbor, and felt his flesh creep with uncontrollable horror when he found himself in actual contact with Magua.

The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24

11  The expression of his eyes made her soul sick, and her flesh creep.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII

12  As we wound on our endless way, and the sun sank lower and lower behind us, the shadows of the evening began to creep round us.

Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I

13  Lucy was really tired, and we intended to creep off to bed as soon as we could.

Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII

14  A thin mist began to creep up from the river, and it grew, and grew; till soon a dense fog enveloped the ship and all around her.

Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

15  Yellow crow's feet would creep round the fading eyes and make them horrible.

The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10

1  Kindness will creep where it may not go.

2  Learn to creep before you leap.

3  Anorexia can creep up on young girls when they least expect it.

4  Children learn to creep ere they can go.

5  Johann would creep into the gallery to listen to the singers.

6  He denied that giving civilian tasks to the NATO forces was a case of mission creep.

7  A few mistakes always creep in during the editing process.

8  His glassy stare made my flesh creep.

9  If it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door.

10  If it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door; so either way I will get into the garden, and I do not care which happens!

11  I tucked the money-bag in under the lid, just down beyond where his hands was crossed, which made me creep, they was so cold, and then I run back across the room and in behind the door.

12  As we creep ever closer to Dec. 25, people are hoping there is at least a light dusting of snow on the ground for the biggest gift-giving holiday of the year.

13  There is a sizable portion of the population that is also turned off in general by “Christmas creep,” the relentless expansion of the most promotion-heavy, consumerism-crazed of seasons.

14  Meanwhile, In Russia, hardliners contend that their nation should rely more on nuclear weapons to offset NATO's superiority in conventional military forces and to cope with the U.S. missile defense program, now creeping toward Russia's borders.

15  The ruins of the resort are now covered in rapacious island vegetation creeping in from the jungle.