creep

[kriːp]

Definition:
1. To move slowly, quietly and carefully, because you do not want to be seen or heard.
2. To move with your body close to the ground; to move slowly on your hands and knees.
3. To move or develop very slowly.

Use 'creep' in a sentence:

1. Mistakes were starting to creep in.
2. The steady-state creep strain rate is a power function of deviatoric stress and exponential function of temperature and energy.
3. "Let us creep in," John suggested, "and put our hands over her eyes."
4. The thought of the horrible scene made my flesh creep.
5. The danger remains of western military mission creep.
6. Some people think that rating agencies have allowed a kind of moral hazard to creep into their organization.
7. All the people on earth would have to creep.
8. From then on, without backer, the cirrus had to creep on ground and struggle for life.
9. He's a nasty little creep!
10. "We shall creep out quietly into the butler's pantry—" cried the Mole.
11. Back I go to the hotel and creep up to my room.
12. What is scope creep?
13. Their organisation has been subjected to creeping privatisation since 1981.
14. I don't want to see that creep again.
15. When cats are preparing to pounce they creep over the ground very slowly.
16. Too much snow, for example, can smother trees, and avalanches and snow creep can damage or destroy them.
17. The sight of snakes makes my flesh creep.
18. The average number of students in each class is creeping up from three to four.
19. Now his other major works are creeping back into concert programmes.
20. The earth-worm is also called the dew-worm, because it likes to come out of its hole and creep about when the grass is wet with dew.
21. This avoids "feature creep", in which requirements work remains constant or even increases.
22. If panic starts to creep in, try to replace your negative thoughts with more positive ones, such as "It's going to be OK."
23. Tiredness can easily creep up on you while you're driving.
24. I would creep in and with stealthy footsteps explore the second floor.
25. I felt a smile creep upon my face.
26. I can feel the icy fingers creep down my spine.
27. That idea has been creeping into our consciousness for some time.
28. I always hated that statue. It gave me the creeps.
29. He could hear someone creeping around downstairs.
30. I crept out of bed in the dead of night and sneaked downstairs.
31. The inflation rate has been creeping up to 9.5 per cent.
32. An increasing ratio of mistakes, perhaps induced by tiredness, crept into her game.
33. A slight feeling of suspicion crept over me.
34. I felt a chill creep over me.
35. The rabbit creeps away and hides in a hole.
36. The temperature crept up to just above 40 degrees.
37. I was surprised by the lack of transmission creep and the fact that the car will roll backward if you take your foot off the brake on an incline.
38. He had crept up on his unsuspecting victim from behind.
39. We crept around on tiptoes so as not to disturb him.
40. As she became more tired, errors began to creep into her work.
41. I crept up the stairs, trying not to wake my parents.
42. Insecurity might creep in.
43. A note of hysteria crept into her voice.
44. She crept downstairs quiet as a mouse.
45. She crept upstairs, quiet as a mouse.
46. The hands of the clock crept slowly around.
47. Her arms crept around his neck.
48. We saw two more wild cats creeping towards us in the darkness.
49. It makes my flesh creep to think of it.
50. He crept into the house trying not to make a sound.
51. When I go to bed I always creep in between the sheet and the cover.
52. The downward trend went into reverse and the scores started to creep up again.
53. Climate change has raised average temperatures in the Central Highlands region of Kenya, allowing the disease to creep into higher altitude areas where the population has little or no immunity.
54. A cold grey light crept under the curtains.