Example Sentences

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That figure has been creeping back up after a decline in 2024 and the first half of 2025.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

For the past several years, an objectively stupid stock market trade has been creeping further and further into your retirement.

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2026

The unemployment rate has been creeping up since June.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

"It's a large, slowly moving mass -- on the order of about 500 million cubic meters -- that has been creeping for decades."

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2025

A sort of dissatisfaction has been creeping over me, perhaps for a long while, I being unconscious of it.

From Flames by Hichens, Robert Smythe