How to Use creep in a Sentence

creep

1 of 2 verb

• 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
• Management is increasingly portrayed as a creeping ailment in the omniverse of the singular rock artist.
  — Andrew O’Hagan, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• An annual inflation measure watched closely by the Federal Reserve crept higher in February, its first rise in five months and a sign the central bank could remain wary about cutting interest rates too soon.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024

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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
• Characters include Anna, the only female player; Frank, the unwelcome creep; and Jim, the game master who railroads the game’s story.
  — Canwen Xu, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024