crept

[ krept ]
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verb
  1. simple past tense and past participle of creep.

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How to use crept in a sentence

  • Drowned every few seconds by our tremendous salvoes, this more nervous noise crept back insistently into our ears in the interval.

  • All felt strangely as if something evil had crept into their lives, and their excitement was great.

    The Homesteader | Oscar Micheaux
  • A sense of inferiority crept over him, as on the first day of his arrival at Alexandria.

    The Wave | Algernon Blackwood
  • The leaves were motionless, the river crept past without a murmur, the dark hills rose out of the distant desert like a wave.

    The Wave | Algernon Blackwood
  • Finally, his predicament became so awkward that an expression of distress crept into his face.

    The Homesteader | Oscar Micheaux

British Dictionary definitions for crept

crept

/ (krɛpt) /


verb
  1. the past tense and past participle of creep

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