How to Use creeper in a Sentence

creeper

noun

• Birds like the Kauai akialoa, the Maui akepa, and the Molokai creeper which were unique to their locations.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2021
• The creeper-style shoes were the biggest hint that this show was most suitable for the younger crowd.
  — Alice Tate, Marie Claire, 21 Feb. 2013
• His most potent works dwell in the blue-black hues of the twelve hours per day when the bougainvillea and creepers are cloaked in dark.
  — The New York Review of Books, 5 Apr. 2018
• The brown creeper is one of five creeper species in the world, the only one in North America.
  — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 20 Apr. 2021
• The style felt like a lighter take on the summer combat boot, while still holding the appeal of a creeper.
  — Maria Ward, Vogue, 17 July 2017
• Something orange and gooey splatters on the wall and the creeper pushes the door open to find a smashed pumpkin on the floor.
  — Shannon Carlin, Time, 14 Oct. 2022
• Fight persistently as the creeper that brings down the tree.
  — Christina Chaey, Bon Appétit, 11 Apr. 2021
• The glaze sort of looks like hot pepper jelly, and as such, its heat is more of a creeper than a palate crusher.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
• The Bronco's stick-shift is a seven-speed unit, with Ford referring to the first gear as a creeper gear.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 9 Jan. 2023
• Owls and a small songbird called the brown creeper are among those species that have disappeared, Lovio said.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2023
• But his pointy creeper dress shoes by Berluti and messy bedhead helped make the fit feel cool and current.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2020
• Virginia creeper is a native vine that will work as a ground cover.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2017
• Hey, maybe this is what the creeper gear—the lowest of the seven—is really for, rather than trying to get the Bronco to pop a wheelie.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 2 Aug. 2021
• Davie Park filled in some gaps in our list with such goodies as a brown creeper, pine warbler and hairy woodpecker.
  — Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Trees are left to grow over and inside buildings, creepers tumble over rooftops and flaking walls.
  — Emily Ding, CNN, 21 May 2017
• This purse-friendly perfume has a floral scent that's a mix of rangoon creeper, jasmine bud, and tuberose.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 May 2021
• When Fawcett returns after one expedition, the front of his English house is wreathed in creepers, as if the tendrils of vines had spread across the sea.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2017
• The moss-like Corsican mint is an attractive creeper, good between paving stones or in the rock garden.
  — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 22 Aug. 2018
• Scotch moss, Corsican mint, mondo grass and blue star creeper can all be walked on without a problem as well.
  — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2018
• Notes: Rangoon creeper, tuberose, jasmine bud Sizes: 3.3 oz.
  — Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 24 Jan. 2024
• The porous limestone walls are laced with thick brown arteries of twigs and creepers; below it, the ground teems with large ants and dark-blue millipedes which dart through the dirt.
  — 1843, 20 Feb. 2020
• Quickly and easily transform it into a handheld sucking up stair dust, or use it as a crevice-creeper in the car and on the sofa.
  — Cortne Bonilla, refinery29.com, 23 Nov. 2020
• That’s fleece, that’s T-shirts, that’s creepers and onesies—everything except hard goods and headwear.
  — Jonathan Evans, Esquire, 5 Feb. 2018
• The costumed creeper was charged with forcible touching and acting in a manner injurious to a child.
  — Fox News, 9 Sep. 2019
• UNO Minecraft features characters from the video game on each card, as well as a special creeper rule card which forces other players to draw three cards from the pile.
  — Lauren Gray, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2022
• Sparrows, ovenbirds, juncos, warblers, kinglets, and creepers are just some of the species on the casualty list.
  — Babak Tafreshi, National Geographic, 3 Apr. 2019
• This four-pack of soft plush toys comes with a creeper, yellow ocelot, bat, and skeleton—all characters of the passive and hostile mobs that populate the game.
  — Lauren Gray, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2022
• That guy – the suspect, the creeper – must’ve broken into my neighbor’s apartment and, on his way through the door, kicked my newspaper inside.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 12 Jan. 2023
• Though a tiny fraction of the population can actually get a rash from creeper (just like poison ivy), a rash isn’t the worst this plant can dish out.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2019
• But contrary to a shoddy slew of Lifetime movies, most online daters aren't creepers, psychos or stalkers.
  — Author: Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024