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
At this, through all his bulk an agony Crept gradual, from the feet unto the crown,260 Like a lithe serpent vast and muscular Making slow way, with head and neck convuls'd From over-strained might.
From Keats: Poems Published in 1820 by Robertson, M. (Margaret)
And leaping downward swift, a mountain stream Crept soft to sleep, where meadow grasses dream.
From Lilith The Legend of the First Woman by Collier, Ada Langworthy
