creeper

Example Sentences

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I don’t want to sound like a creeper, but I’ve seen your own mother’s Instagram page for you, and that woman loves you.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2024

Kittelberger photographed the pictured 'Akikiki, also called Kauai's creeper, in the Alaka'i Wilderness Preserve in 2022, when it was believed around 70 or so remained in the wild; today, only one individual remains.

From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2024

Here grow maple, oak, hickory, cottonwood, sycamore, river birch, hackberry, fronds bowed under climbing English ivy, with winter creeper spreading underfoot.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2023

The newly identified species has been named Arenaepeton supinatus, which means "sand creeper on its back" in Latin.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2023

Limefield House was the color of warm honey, and half of its front was covered in Virginia creeper.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman