creep
Example Sentences
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To be fair, some people are creeping back to the office because they missed it.
The unemployment rate has been creeping up since June.
“The temperature drops and the relative humidity goes up, the winds die down, flames drop to the ground and it starts creeping along,” Hanson said.
From Los Angeles Times
The next day, in their final news conference, a direct-speaking King called him a creep.
From BBC
The definitional creep of what we now consider middle age—pushed back, perhaps, because of the increasing delay in starting families—means that it often overlaps with the territory of old age.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
