How to Use creep in a Sentence

creep

1 of 2 verb
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  • I caught him creeping down the stairs to the kitchen.
  • She crept toward the edge of the roof and looked over.
  • The hours crept by as we waited for morning.
  • The price of gasoline has crept back up to three dollars a gallon.
  • A few mistakes crept in during the last revision of the paper.
  • She crept into bed next to her sleeping husband.
  • But there are still days when the darkness creeps back in.
    — Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 31 Aug. 2023
  • When the bowl gets filled up, the mass of rock on top of ice starts to creep downhill.
    — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 29 July 2023
  • But fear, anxiety and lack can creep in to run the show.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The bar is small and, just as in the restaurant, vines of grape and bougainvillea have crept up its walls.
    — Jim Dobson, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • Still, Krieger tries to be gentle with herself when the mom guilt creeps in.
    — Rachel Wilkerson Miller, SELF, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The dog crept toward Studer as its owner called the dog.
    — Kff Health News, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The best part about that: Shade was finally creeping up the east stands.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 2023
  • Early starts to catch the game before the heat of the day, and evening drives to find them as the shadows creep in and the hunts begin.
    — Sophie Morgan, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Thoughts of my to-do list at work, then what my friends and favorite celebrities were up to, crept in.
    — Ray A. Smith, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023
  • This dropped to approximately 65% the year the change was made, but has crept back up to around 85% in the two years since.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The small, delicate blooms of creeping phlox appear around March or April in the South.
    — Katelyn Chef, Southern Living, 9 Feb. 2024
  • And every year the cases creep north—roughly 30 miles per year.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Prices can creep up as house hunters compete over the few homes listed in a market.
    — Anna Bahney, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
  • As Trudi Carter lofted in a corner kick, Swaby crept up in the box away from the goal.
    — Ethan Fuller, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
  • These lacy creeps are probably the chicest a ghost has ever looked.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Also double-check that prices have not crept back up since the event started.
    — WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Two large indoor palms flanked the stage, and a row of creeping plants hung over a projector screen.
    — TIME, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The floor began sinking, mold crept in from the moisture, and the family had to live around holes in the walls, ceilings and floor.
    — USA Today, 25 July 2023
  • When the sun disappeared, the cold instantly came, and late into the fourth quarter that freeze crept to the bottom of the bowl.
    — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The herb is also known as creeping phlox, moss phlox or mountain phlox and is native to the eastern U.S.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Water from the storms had come up onto his street and was creeping up his driveway.
    — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Many of us know all too well the energy or happiness slump that creeps in at the beginning of the year.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 10 Jan. 2024
  • As the March trial date crept closer, Nicole’s stomach started to ache.
    — Carolyn Van Houten, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The amount that Alameda was allowed to go negative began to creep up.
    — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2023
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creep

2 of 2 noun
  • That guy gives me the creeps.
  • I get the creeps every time he walks by.
  • I hate snakes. They give me the creeps.
  • From the get-go, Tom has the vibe of a creep and a predator.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 Jan. 2022
  • In a way, Ms. McLay says, this makes the creep harder to see at first.
    — Julia Carpenter, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Most of the creep factor in Mindhunter is, well, in your mind.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 27 June 2022
  • The point is that what makes a naked creep is not his lack of clothing but his creepiness.
    — Outside Online, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The kids were unimpressed, and my efforts to rein in feature creep fell on deaf ears.
    — Simon Hill, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The court does something to me: Standing between those lines, my brain slows to a creep.
    — Rembert Browne, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • My credit card creep’s first move was to charge about $60 at a restaurant.
    — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The problem is, Dan is a total creep around my wife (and most younger women).
    — cleveland, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Shouldn’t health systems stay in their lane and resist this scope creep?
    — George Dalembert, STAT, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The new deadline, of course, comes as 2024 creeps ever closer.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Far better is the slow creep, the horror that teases and then threatens.
    — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2021
  • My best project management tip is to avoid scope creep.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Irish Spring: How often does a soap ad creep people out?
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Enter stage left, with a villain’s creep: the virus’ Delta variant.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2021
  • As sixth graders, the students thought their teacher at Davisville Middle School was a creep.
    — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Sally keeps in the cab for protection and blasts the creep who’s ready to take delivery.
    — Joe Leydon, Variety, 28 July 2022
  • The sun was beginning its pale-winter creep across the window.
    — Claudia Dey, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Thirst embeds itself – in the body, in the landscape, in consciousness – with a slow creep.
    — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The risk of feature creep is a common problem for new products.
    — Bhaskar Ahuja, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • But the slight tweaks, which range from a 20% to 33% price hike, are a sign that inflation’s creep is everywhere.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2022
  • One of the most common impediments to projects is scope creep.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • Most say the film is on the funnier side, but there are definitely moments of creep thanks to the horseman.
    — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 19 July 2022
  • There is the creep factor of the suits encasing the women from head to toe, with only their eyes showing.
    — Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
  • However, the process may also happen slowly, in the form of creep.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 17 June 2023
  • Since those days my response has been the same: politely laugh, ignore the question and do my best to avoid the creep in the future.
    — oregonlive, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Just be aware that the creep of gentrification isn't beloved by all the locals.
    — Joe Minihane, CNN, 13 July 2022
  • Orange plastic spiders up the creep factor of this spooky kids' craft.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Sep. 2022

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