Example Sentences

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ME: I’d rather eat nails than brave the mall on Black Friday or Grey Thursday, as Thanksgiving is now creepingly – and creepily – called.

From Time • Oct. 10, 2013

Change, it turns out, comes creepingly at the Field of Dreams Movie Site.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2011

But she has begun a pilgrimage of the soul, at first so creepingly tentative that she seems to be motionless.

From Time Magazine Archive

With apparent unconcern, the lion creepingly advanced toward the dog, and then, with a sudden movement, he was upon his feet, and in a second launched himself into the air!

From St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1877 by Various

The firm little hand worked its way slowly up, went creepingly over his shoulder and bent tightly about his neck.

From The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation by Wilson, Harry Leon