crept
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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"Winds pounded the building with the force of a thousand sledgehammers. Crept out during eye to find school mostly destroyed, cars in parking lot thrown around & mutilated," Morgerman wrote, in part.
From Fox News • Sep. 4, 2019
Crept up on the rails and went past Thierry Dusautoir, France's grim-visaged tackling machine.
From The Guardian • Mar. 21, 2011
"Crept up silently, first I knew was when I felt his breath on my cheek," he tweeted.
From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2010
Oh! there lay one beside me—a mere youth— Whose dying hands had pressed unto his lips A long fair tress, through which his dying sigh Crept, as in happier days perchance did love's.
From Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems by Cassels, Walter Richard
"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Crept in this petty pace from day to day," without our making any perceptible progress.
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