Creep Sentence Examples

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  • I'll be as quiet as a kitten in slippers as I creep up to the bedroom.

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  • Instead, he watched red creep up Dan's face.

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  • I wonder if the man she's talking to is her creep of a husband.

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  • They gazed at each other until she felt red creep up her neck.

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  • Autumn had begun to creep over New England, promising to transform the landscape into the backdrop that Jackson Parrish so loved.

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  • The Christians made efforts to creep back to their former possessions and churches were rebuilt in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nazareth; but another devastation was the result of the ferocious inroads of the Mongolian Timur (Tamerlane) in 1400.

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  • One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

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  • Then I saw a figure get out of the car and creep around toward the back of the house.

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  • He was able to creep up, snatch a purse and run before anyone registered that the hooded youth ever approached.

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  • Mistakes creep in when time is short and writing is rushed.

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  • You can watch the video for Creep at YouTube.

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  • They don't creep, but fit the legs for a flattering fit.

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  • Little bodies in particular love to creep closer to the birthday child as presents are being opened.

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  • They like to creep up on me when they think I'm unarmed.

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  • If the skirt or pants bind or creep, you won't be comfortable.

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  • What is the best was to avoid carb creep?

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  • Also naturally present in wine, histamines cause the symptoms that creep up during allergy season – think flushing, sneezing, runny nose, and watery eyes.

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  • Every business develops time wasting methods that creep into daily productivity.

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  • Anyone who only takes in 800 calories a day is bound to lose weight, but when you begin eating normal meals again, chances are the weight will creep back on.

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  • It was patented in 1919, just four years after the initial idea and began to creep into use during the 1920s.

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  • Not paying attention to carb creep can slow - or even stop - your progress.

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  • Given the success of the single in the US, EMI, Radiohead's label, re-issued Pablo Honey and re-released Creep as a single.

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  • Radiohead chronicled the way they felt about Creep with the 1994 EP My Iron Lung (the title track of which would also later appear on 1995's The Bends).

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  • What could Brenda have told this creep?

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  • I have total faith that you'll beat the socks off the creep.

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  • Waiting until nightfall, he changed into clothing more suited for the Qatwali society and covered his face with a hood to creep into the city.

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  • These forms are termed the stock-mothers; they creep into the buds of the vine, and, as these develop intofthe young leaves, insert their proboscis into the upper side.

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  • A coal seam with a soft pavement and a hard roof is the most subject to a " creep."

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  • The only movement in the depths is the slow creep of ice-cold water northwards along the bottom from the Southern Ocean; but this is more marked, and apparently penetrates farther north, than in the Atlantic.

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  • As the ranks of the clergy slowly filled, questions arose which the Reformation had not settled, and it was natural that the old system with which the country was familiar should creep in again.

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  • Further, he set his face against the Tantra system, and against the animistic superstitions which had been allowed to creep into life again.

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  • With a look around, she started down a new direction, hoping it emptied out somewhere that didn't creep her out so much.

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  • There was the yellow move­ment of a flashlight much too close and Dean sat bolt upright, a frantic vision of Bob from Boise, or Hal the creep, or someone ready to avenge the chastity of a wife or sister.

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  • No more, he swore, would he stealthily creep, Sheep in hand, in the dark, o'er the college wall!

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  • At night I'd hear your gentle paws Quietly creep out of the back room into ours.

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  • When I cried he gave me a dog daisy, told me not to tell my mom and to creep round the back way.

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  • These stresses are a consequence of the loadings but as service proceeds and creep deformation occurs the stresses will change with time.

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  • The value of the stress exponent indicates which mechanism of creep is acting.

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  • Movement along the San Andreas can occur either in sudden jolts or in a slow, steady motion called creep.

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  • Like mine, thy gentle numbers feebly creep; Thy tragic muse gives smiles, thy comic sleep.

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  • I felt a pang of fear creep in deep down to the pit of my stomach.

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  • They creep up behind them real slow, knock into their tails and then scarper as quickly as possible.

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  • A comfy old slipper of a pub- a Dickensian haunt, with low doors in wooden panels for you to creep through.

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  • Creep of wood makes it important that longbows or violins are not left tightly strung.

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  • A curtain of cloud relents enough to allow the peaks of the Olympic Peninsula, dusted with snow, to creep into the picture.

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  • How soon do slanderous reports, vain jests, wanton speeches, creep into the heart !

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  • The result of creep is a change in volume (also water content and void ratio).

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  • This will tell you just how high the dress will "creep up" when it's time to boogey down.

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  • Its graceful pale green fronds are 1 to 2 feet long and 5 to 9 inches broad, twice or thrice divided, and carried upon roots which creep just under the ground.

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  • It grows in almost any soil, and, like its relation the Bindweed, is readily increased by division of the roots, which creep.

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  • Experience proves, however, that it revels in cool rich loam and leaf soil, and flowers profusely when with these are associated broken sandstone, over which the rhizomes creep and flower.

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  • It delights in an exposed position on the rock garden, with an open space on which to creep.

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  • Because of the variety of curvy body types, it is hard to find styles that do not creep up around the thigh area, hug your derrière too tightly or fit uncomfortably around the waist.

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  • Most of the time, the sound of just walking around is enough to creep you out.

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  • From Creep by Radiohead to Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones, there are tracks to satisfy all tastes of rock n' roll.

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  • While it is certainly possible to apply the principles of movement theory common to all dance to the technique of hip hop, unless they are a very good dance teacher, several aspects of other techniques will creep into their pedagogy.

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  • It can get damp and dank underneath a house, and that dampness can creep up inside if it isn't dealt with.

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  • The key here will be to actually make him or her laugh, rather than creep her or him out.

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  • It is very easy to experience what is commonly referred to as "carb creep," where you are eating foods with hidden carbohydrates in them.

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  • Although it was technically preceded by the somewhat obscure Drill EP, Creep was Radiohead's first single from their debut album, Pablo Honey.

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  • Nothing makes a band as unhappy as being forced into the role of one-trick pony, and it didn't take long for Radiohead to tire of taking to the stage in front of audiences only interested in hearing them play Creep.

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  • The song My Iron Lung compared Creep to a life support system for the band.

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  • Prince refused to take part in the session when Bob Geldof called him a "creep" and Waylon Jennings walked out in protest over the suggestion of singing one of the lines in Swahili.

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  • It will also help you avoid unnecessary pages and work on the site, which is a common element of "feature creep" that can occur during the process of creating a website.

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  • I told him maybe this creep Byrne—the one that's missing—maybe he copped the dough, like we were saying.

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  • Tony Oliver provided a singularly oily villain in the shape of Clarence Creep and Janet Taylor gave a nice cameo as the Fairy Queen.

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  • In the second year work will begin on the cyclic loading of adhesive joints and also on the creep behavior of welded thermoplastics.

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  • Plus the " creep " of big snow banks may well eventually topple the gantries themselves.

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  • Like many southern officials, I thought Balewa was a creep and a very small-minded little man.

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  • Which of the following features of Ni superalloy turbine blades helps to make them resistant to creep?

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  • Aging and creep of sands have been measured in triaxial compression and extension to identify the causes of increasing pile shaft capacity with time.

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  • As Britain expanded its empire, influences from the Far East began to creep into British decorating styles, and many people adorned their homes with bold new colors.

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  • The object of this game is to make SpongeBob creep across the screen to get the present without being seen by Squidward.

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  • To play, when Squidward is not looking, click the left mouse button and hold it down to make SpongeBob creep ever closer to the present.

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  • The key to empty mind meditation is not to focus too much on the thoughts that will inevitably creep in.

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  • Other times, if you are in a position where you feel you have no control, anger may creep into your thoughts and drive your actions.

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  • If he goes for you then he's (a creep) breaking the law and doing all manner of bad illegal pedophile things.

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  • Don't let the party volume creep too high, especially if someone asks you to tone things down.

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  • And with any data gathering system, errors are bound to creep in, or problems develop, especially in this era of identity theft.

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  • When you're dealing with millions of files, errors creep in, such as typos, crossed social security numbers, addresses, wrong name spellings, outdated information and the like.

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  • Dean wondered if Cynthia might suspect Dean himself had blown the creep away just for spite.

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  • Radiohead eventually went on to even larger success than Creep when their album OK Computer and later Kid A, both went on to win Grammy Awards.

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  • Core came out an in late 1992, and spawned a few hits - notably, the song Creep - but the critics were lukewarm at best on the band.

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  • Modern rock is generally considered to be music from the 90s or so and beyond, though some 80s stuff does creep in there.

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  • Sluggish brackish streams creep along between banks of fetid black mud.

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  • Pieces of paper punctured with small holes are placed over the trays in which the hatching goes on; and the worms, immediately they burst their shell, creep through these openings to the light, and thereby scrape off any fragments of shell which, adhering to the skin, would kill them by constriction.

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  • In Rhizopus certain hyphae creep horizontally on the surface of the substratum, and then anchor their tips to it by means of a tuft of short branches (appressorium), the walls of which soften and gum themselves to it, then another branch shoots out from the tuft and repeats the process, like a strawberry-runner.

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  • I told him maybe this creep Byrne—the one that's missing—maybe he copped the dough, like we were saying.

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  • This creep Hal is hot for me and this is the last place anybody would look.

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  • If a piece of bark and cortex are torn off, the occlusion takes longer, because the tissues have to creep over the exposed area of wood; and the same is true of a transverse cut severing the branch, as may be seen in any properly pruned tree.

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  • It was formerly the custom to include with the Fungi the Schizomycetes or Bacteria, and the Myxomycetes or Mycetozoa; but the peculiar mode of growth and division, the cilia, spores and other peculiarities of the former, and the emission of naked amoeboid masses of protoplasm, which creep and fuse to streaming plasmodia, with special modes of nutrition and spore-formation of the latter, have led to their separation as groups of organisms independent of the true Fungi.

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  • As the rivers creep farther down the delta, they become more and more sluggish, and their bifurcations and interlacings more complicated.

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  • On the first day, which celebrated the union of Adonis and Aphrodite, their images were placed side by side on a silver couch, around them all the fruits of the season, "Adonis gardens" in silver baskets, golden boxes of myrrh, cakes of meal, honey and oil, made in the likeness of things that creep and things that fly.

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  • Max Muller says (speaking of the Greeks), " their poets had an instinctive aversion to everything excessive or monstrous, yet they would relate of their gods what would make the most savage of Red Indians creep and shudder " - stories, that is, of the cannibalism of Demeter, of the mutilation of Uranus, the cannibalism of Cronus, who swallowed his own children, and the like.

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  • Because the creep was hot for me and I wouldn't give him the time of day.

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  • Opening out of this and the other chambers, and connecting them together, are a series of low winding passages or cuniculi, just large enough for a man to creep through on all fours.

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  • Many notorious bad characters had managed to creep into posts of influence and used their position to wreak personal vengeance or to enrich themselves at the expense of the public or the public treasury.

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  • The second part of the circulation in the depth is the slow " creep " of water of very low temperature along the bottom.

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  • Some, like many Cephalopods and the Pteropods, are pelagic or free-swimming; others creep or lie on the sea bottom.

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  • Monoblepharis has oogonia with single oospheres and antheridia developing a few amoeboid uniciliate antherozoids; these creep to the opening of the oogonium and then swim in.

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  • Dean felt the beginnings of a headache creep along the base of his neck as he tried to concentrate on who, among the cast of characters cloistered snugly in Bird Song, might have been responsible for Jerome Shipton's fall.

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  • But there are no perpetual snow-fields, no glaciers creep down these valleys, and no alpine hamlets ever appear to break the monotony.

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  • I can now tell her to go upstairs or down, out of doors or into the house, lock or unlock a door, take or bring objects, sit, stand, walk, run, lie, creep, roll, or climb.

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  • Xander waited until he saw the pink creep up her face.

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  • The whisper seems to creep round the gallery horizontally, not necessarily along the shorter arc, but rather along that arc towards which the whisperer faces.

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