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will be creeping

  • future progressive
    of creep.
    creep
    verb (used without object)
    to move slowly with the body close to the ground, as a reptile or an insect, or a person on hands and knees.

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But it may well be that after a year or two of rubbing against realities, a little of that old dismal tone will be creeping back into the new, cheerful economics.

From Time Magazine Archive

And when you think that these very women will be creeping back to their homes and caring for the German wounded they find there, it gives you a fine lump in the throat.

From A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium by Hugh Gibson

Indeed, no," replied Dalrymple; "and ere long the autumn tints will be creeping over the landscape, and the whole scene will assume a different character.

From In the Days of My Youth by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards

It takes doctors, lawyers, engineers, poets, and I don’t know what, to run the business, and I reckon that improvements which call for parsons will be creeping in next.

From Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." by George Horace Lorimer

"If I keep my health, however," he added, "and have no unforeseen hindrance, it shall not be forgotten, but will be creeping on by degrees."

From The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain by Samuel Smiles