creeping juniper

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noun

a prostrate central North American shrub, Juniperus horizontalis, of the cypress family, of central North America, having bluish-green or gray-blue leaves and blue fruit, growing well in sandy, rocky soil.

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How to use creeping juniper in a sentence

And so the same creeping rot of the rule of law that the administration has inflicted on immigration now bedevils our drug laws.
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She smiled, too, her incisors creeping out from behind her lips.
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There are some stats to explain why the age of nominees is creeping up.
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She confessed to harboring a “creeping concern that [Edward Snowden] is not who he purports to be.”
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A creeping sense develops that Judy fled not just a stifling culture but a genuine existential threat.
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The lady in black, creeping behind them, looked a trifle paler and more jaded than usual.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
Her feet crush creeping things: there is a busy ant or blazoned beetle, with its back broken, writhing in the dust, unseen.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
I still think we might have done as well at much less cost by creeping up these 200 or 300 yards by night.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
They destroy ants and spiders and other creeping things, so that Alila's mother never kills them nor drives them away.
Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin|Mary Hazelton Wade
But he did not notice a silent figure creeping up to the window of the room in which the rest were dining.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn