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

"Saved me!" he repeated the words as the curate saw the awed blood creepingly recede.

From The Dawn of a To-morrow by Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)

For the evil gains its influence over us slowly and creepingly; the victory of the good is soon decided.

From Four Phases of Love by Heyse, Paul