crept
Example Sentences
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"Winds pounded the building with the force of a thousand sledgehammers. Crept out during eye to find school mostly destroyed, cars in parking lot thrown around & mutilated," Morgerman wrote, in part.
From Fox News • Sep. 4, 2019
Crept up on the rails and went past Thierry Dusautoir, France's grim-visaged tackling machine.
From The Guardian • Mar. 21, 2011
"Crept up silently, first I knew was when I felt his breath on my cheek," he tweeted.
From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2010
Wild refrains Of piteous croonings and of vague despair Crept to her lips, then died away, unsung, Hiding their tunes, her shattered dreams among.
From Provocations by Bristowe, Sibyl
Oh! there lay one beside me—a mere youth— Whose dying hands had pressed unto his lips A long fair tress, through which his dying sigh Crept, as in happier days perchance did love's.
From Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems by Cassels, Walter Richard
