will be creeping
- future progressive of creep.
Example Sentences
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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 Gibson, Hugh
They will be creeping in closer; they will not wait much longer.
From Molly McDonald A Tale of the Old Frontier by Blumenschein, Ernest L.
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 Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford
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 Lorimer, George Horace
