How To Use Creep In A Sentence

  • There is grassland on the natural brae of Royal Garden, yellow and green, fighting with the autumn. In this grassland, an alley wanders forward, just like the traces from a big snake' creeping.
  • Our reaction to a tickling sensation may have arisen from a defence against creepy-crawlies. Times, Sunday Times
  • Traitorfish said: I know that’s clichéd, but I really never liked Captain America - a superhero that nationalistic is nothing but creepy. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The Death of Captain America
  • The makeup for the Djinn character is creepy and evil, like some devilish creature from an R-rated version of Star Wars.
  • Some kind of creeper was even growing across the windowpane, trying to get into the house. READY?
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  • After his long stretch as an untouchable hero and saint (courtesy of hagiographer R Bolt) it was about time that creep More was taken off his pedestal. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Observe live bugs and even hold the creepy-crawlies in your hands. Times, Sunday Times
  • And if some heartless creep makes rude remarks that hurt your friend, you are not responsible for his actions.
  • It came in a steady flood from Fang to me and, through me, to all the creepy-crawly things I could hurl at the ground and at the concrete, at the brick, and at the stone. Crossed
  • First, they were creeping molds that slithered forth from the ocean onto land...and then they stood upright, supporting their globby substance by means of calciferous scaffolding, and finally they built machines. Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006)
  • Many bloggers and online commenters have called the animatronic baby "creepy" and "freaky" -- Technabob even ran a post about the clip with the headline The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • But then there is the other side: He was a creep, who had "problems" with the unwhite people and with women, and maybe even didn't so much seek out real girlfriends. Wood War! Who Wins Today's Grabby Tabloid Battle For Your Eyeballs?
  • Everywhere I turned there were immense trees towering above me, rainbows of exotically coloured blooms, and thick dark carpets of creeping moss.
  • We creep the hill, flat on our bellies through yellowed grass and stone, black dirt grimed on our bright faces like powdered war paint. Along the Battlement
  • The demons were brilliant - creeping and crawling, twisting and writhing as one would expect them to.
  • The pub with the most atmosphere is tiny Turf Tavern, which you get to by following two long, creepy, almost unnavigable alleys off a winding back street.
  • Noblemen weren't supposed to be afraid of such things, but that didn't change the fact that the deep, caliginous mist was just plain creepy. Mistborn
  • The Indians of America carry all their products, such as maize, sugar, coffee, etc., in bags made of this leaf, which they know how to arrange so well, that they transport an "arroba," or twenty-five pounds any distance without a single grain escaping, and without any appliance other than a liana or creeper to tie it up with. Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
  • All unrealizable, save for some supreme moment, did the web of Daylight's personality creep out and around her. Chapter XV
  • The other payback is the obvious reduction in weaning stress experienced by calves already eating creep.
  • It is clever, and being cocooned in a moving car while the story unfolds and darkness falls, ensure it is a memorable, even creepy experience.
  • On October 30, just as the flood waters were creeping up in Ryedale, she drove her Peugeot car through a deep puddle and stalled the engine.
  • The creeping fractures in both have been palliated by results in recent games, but the coming ones will determine whether those signs of life are indicative of temporary remission or permanent recovery.
  • An exceptionally creepy two-parter begins tonight with various crudely dismembered body parts of young women getting washed up in the Thames or chewed by urban foxes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Love will creep where it may not go. 
  • Just add fake blood to complete the creepy look. The Sun
  • Children learn to creep ere they can go. 
  • But, frankly, I'd rather point out that having Spitzer and Parker sit so close together and trade sly banter is just plain creepy. Parker Spitzer: no snap or crackle, and not pop
  • The atmosphere is decidedly creepy as the increasingly inventive deaths take place against a backdrop of innocent carols, glittering tinsel and good cheer. The Sun
  • You can't easily replicate that kind of creepy omniscience, and until today it makes me wonder whether some god-like entity of biological origins is behind the progress of human civilization. MIND MELD: The Best Aliens in Science Fiction
  • Changes in creep diet composition may offer a solution to the negative effects of creep feeding.
  • I could hardly believe I was creeping around my Cathedral with an exorcist. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • He will take on villains including robotic antibodies and creepy doll monsters, inset below. The Sun
  • The creeps are more likely to hang around waiting for unsuspecting victims in touristy zones like the Zona Rosa, so beware. Mexico City: Biggest city guide for the savvy traveler
  • I'm finally alerted by a creepy slithery, slippy step nearby on soppy, dew-saturated fallen leaves.
  • But giving the state the power to take your vote away because it thinks you aren't smart enough to execute it gives me the creepy-crawlies.
  • So I know there's been threads regarding creepy men and I can see why a guy might feel insulted or take the term creepy offensively. Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums
  • Roots begin to creep out from the bottom of the pot around drainage holes or they peek through the top soil.
  • Elsewhere, another such ‘baby,’ this one with four tentacles, lies on its back, wiggling his creepy appendages at an individual wearing a cloak and a bizarre sculpturesque mound atop his head.
  • As such I found myself dressed in black pyjamas and hood with only my eyes visible, creeping along a hallway with a particularly well-polished Ottoman strapped to my back and an alabaster vase full of tulips.
  • We've had glaciations and we've had warmer periods, and vegetation would creep back as the glaciers were retreating.
  • I tend to be a late replier rather than a nonresponder, but even this shows a creeping lack of respect. Times, Sunday Times
  • So, the blue line creeps up as the value of your gift increases.
  • The “terminal” consists of one open room with a dark, creepy bathroom with no light and a pupusa lady at the front with a sandia (watermelon) lady, also the lady to pay to use the (no luz) unlit bathroom. Archive 2008-08-01
  • Funny how religion is creeping into the environmental debate.
  • She could feel the burning heat creeping up her neck and building up on her cheeks painfully.
  • It was a tangle of orange and lemon trees, looped with garlands of roses and flowering creepers, carpeted with a thousand fragrant, old-fashioned flowers, and arboured with grapevines, whose last year's leaves, though sparse, were still russet and gold: altogether a mere bright ribbon of beauty pinned like a lover's knot on a high shoulder of jutting rock. The Guests Of Hercules
  • Maybe all writers have something creepy about them. The Times Literary Supplement
  • This is company who's former CEO, Eric Schmidt, described Google's approach this way: There is what I call the creepy line. Nathan Newman: Is Google Cruising Towards a Legal Meltdown?
  • This is a big reason to combat the creeping banalisation of cosmetic surgery as just another 'harmless' service offered by the booming beauty industry. The Times of India
  • The second law can be applied to the prediction of creep failure, such as rockslides, colluvial-deposit landslides and loess landslides as well as clay landslides with locked patches.
  • Tungsten has high tensile strength and good creep resistance.
  • He's a completely loathsome and utterly shallow creep and I look forward to a swift garotting moment in the very near future. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • State-of-the-art production and Gilmour's note-perfect playing collided with bassist Roger Waters's grim lyrical vision, which fretted about materialism and age creeping up on you.
  • Feelings of lethargy and fatigue are creeping into my being.
  • He makes us see and hear with him the tens of thousands of stone cutters and the ring of their tools squaring the "setts"; and then one platoon after another stepping forward and laying down its row of stones followed by rank after rank of men with the paviours 'rammers, which rise and fall at the sweep of the band-master's rods, keeping time in a stately music as they advance; the continuous falling and crashing of the trees as other thousands of hands ply the axes along the lines, that creep, slowly, but visibly, on through the Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
  • Hanging planters also make a good home for anything that will trail and spill over, such as ivies and creeping phlox, especially if the planter is hanging above eye level.
  • That creepy old retired nun with the rheumy face of a Martian had locked him in a closet in the basement.
  • Around the bays, the continent's ancient ice-cap creeps inexorably down to the sea in shelves that crack and avalanche with the sound of howitzer blasts.
  • QB Trent Green must recognize when the Colts' safeties creep up to the line, then look for TE Tony Gonzalez downfield.
  • Dirrach allowed himself to wonder if one of the outlanders was a true shaman, and felt his flesh creep. The Magic May Return
  • If a word stirs your feelings in one way and those of some of your readers in another, you cannot use that word safely; in spite of the most careful definitions and disclaimers the emotional bias will creep in and twist the effect of your words in the minds of some of your audience. The Making of Arguments
  • And who knows what creep will be waiting on the roadside to accompany them.
  • In contrast to the soil creep of temperate regions, solifluction and gelifiuction are relatively rapid processes in periglacial regions and can result in the active development of slopes.
  • In the case of the Japanese-born Nara, this exhibition featuring more that 100 of his works -- from paintings, drawings, illustrations, album covers and installations -- shows how he evolved from a more traditional art-schoolish approach to painting to become a leading proponent of the neo-pop kawa-kawai creepy cute school of pop-art. Brad Balfour: Closing This Weekend -- Two Shows of Artists Who Use Music as Inspiration
  • Thirteen other species of a type of bird known as the Hawaiian honeycreeper had also become instinct.
  • -- Tis a gift to be feeble tis a gift to be asleep, tis a gift tocow-touw to the fascistcreep, andif we find ourselves in a FEMA camp tonight, we will know that the loonies and kooks were right. OpEdNews - Diary: The Purpose and Practice of Sarcasm
  • His studio was like a creepy one-room place that was a walk-up on top of a deli, so it smelled real weird.
  • This is different - and slightly less creepy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Shelley saw how, as the sun faded among the trees just as we would see it now: ‘pallid evening twines its beaming hair in duskier braids around the languid eyes of day: silence and twilight, unbeloved of men, creep hand in hand’.
  • With the consistent intervention of human nature, expectations do creep in and that is where the fun starts.
  • The faintest noise, it sounded like the creeping of some wraith.
  • However, I'm reminded of an episode of Ace of Cakes where Duff's crew did a very detailed ear as a gift from a patient to his surgeon after a procedure that gave the patient his hearing back. *g* Though to be honest the decorator was a bit creeped out, IIRC... This'll Cure that Freaky Fetish
  • Also, they have never partaken in the demographic bullying which is seeing to it that the streets of Britain are the subject of a creeping - more of a brisk walk actually - colonisation aka multiculturalism. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • I read a book, all the while listening for sounds of creepy people outside of my house.
  • What follows are seven creepy experiments—thought experiments, really—that show how contemporary science might advance if it were to toss away the moral compass that guides it.
  • Creeping plants such as the ivy may be joined together by thin wire.
  • They "rustled" and "cached" and "packed" things without even stopping to think, and _r's_ were unmistakably creeping into Priscilla's strictly Bostonian speech. Virginia of Elk Creek Valley
  • At temperatures outside of a furnace, steel doesn't have any appreciable creep.
  • Anorexia can creep up on young girls when they least expect it.
  • He also essayed the role of "The Creeper" in 2 films, 1944's The Pearl of Death (a Sherlock Holmes entry starring Basil Rathbone), and 1946's House of Horrors (where he was exploited by an evil artist played by Martin Kosleck), but was not involved in 1948's The Creeper. Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: Intriguing Factoids From the Horror/Sci-Fi/Mystery Genre
  • To think that a bad review could result in an incensed author and their posse showing up on my doorstep is pretty damn creepy - online stalking and harassment is equally creepy in my mind. I'm Not Saying I Condone It, But I Understand
  • I promise I won't ask this again, but will you do me a favour and distract me from my creeped outness right now? Blog: Dramatics
  • This only compounded matters and meant that even more zits began to creep all over her face.
  • A vintage white Ambassador - that lumpish fifties-era sedan still found throughout India's hinterland - creeps along within the bright human throng.
  • The wraiths and phantoms creep under your carpets and between the warp and weft of fabric, they lurk in wardrobes and lie flat under drawer-liners.
  • Perennial ryegrass is excellent for use in creep grazing pastures for young animals.
  • Manta rays cruise past, turtles lumber along, sharks scope the scene, the odd octopus creeps along the ocean floor, and further out, the whale sharks make their way north.
  • What kept me reading was how the novel worked as such a creepy metaphor for contemporary America.
  • The name krill derives from ‘kril’, an Old Norwegian word once applied to tiny creepy-crawly things, vermin, and larval fish.
  • They often tried to force the play early and, with unforced errors also creeping in at inopportune times, they rarely completed sets of six.
  • I open the window of my study and see the Painted bat, roosting in the foliage of the monstera creeper, is already asleep after a night's wandering, covering its body with its bright red and black wings.
  • Sept. 24, 1852: A new invention called a dirigible creeps through the air from Paris to Trappe, France, taking three hours to travel 17 miles. We'll Be Circling For Awhile
  • The Moorish girl advanced, creeping on her knees, her two hands still extended towards Meroë, who, full of pity, leaned towards the suppliant, meaning to raise her up. The Brass Bell or, The Chariot of Death
  • a harvest of new plants in the garden; for the rose-trees, emaciated with leaflessness, had each a shadow that twisted on the earth like ground-ivy or climbed the wall like a creeper. The Judge
  • Our favorite ‘intense’ (read: creepy) actor is an aficionado of ecdysiasts.
  • It is He who brings gardens into being: creepers and upright trees, the palm and all manner of crops, olives, and pomegranates alike and different.
  • Inconsistencies began to creep into his testimony.
  • (The monkey fern is a favorite even though it is a little creepy.) Exotica « Awful Library Books
  • Sharon Werner and Sarah Forss have done here for creepy-crawlies and numbers what they did for animals and letters in 2009's "Alphabeasties": In this case, they've used innumerable miniature numbers to create the shapes of creatures, about which they then tell us more. Critters That Crawl, Fly And Count
  • Little self-important copperplate fountain-penned comments such ‘Easily distracted’ start to creep into the elaboration box.
  • Either it means the debate ratings are creeping up, or its unusually dismal Saturday night programming for CBS.CBS News is live streaming the debate right here for those you without benefit of a telly or US geographical location.7.15pm ET: So after his brain feeze last time, Rick Perry is putting in more preparation, right? GOP presidential debate in South Carolina - as it happened
  • School leaders also have a responsibility to tackle unconscious bias where it creeps in. Times, Sunday Times
  • I eased the column forward and saw the airspeed indicator creep up. SKORPION'S DEATH
  • Nearby in the Graham Amazon gallery visitors can gaze at 7 foot arapaimas, catfish the size of bulldogs, beautiful tiger stingrays, giant anacondas, electric eels, two toed sloths and creepy piranhas.
  • Over and over again he regales the reader with proof that snakes, spiders, crocodiles and creepy-crawlies have acquired a taste for tourist blood.
  • Woodcreepers will not cross large, unforested gaps; this may become a problem for their survival as their habitat becomes increasingly fragmented.
  • Old gaffers recited love-poetry, and made the evening shadows creep with more tales about a Greek-tongued demon of the hills.
  • Be particularly vigilant when you open an account, as it is possible for clerical errors to creep in when details are input.
  • We get one scene where a gas station (the same from then end of the first film?) is surprise attacked by a hundred foot Transformer looking robot; it just kind of creeped up on them, understandably. REVIEW: Terminator Salvation « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
  • This suggests that there is no characteristic time scale for the process, reminiscent of the dynamics of plastic flow in solids, which is termed creep.
  • Interestingly, what makes the movie work is precisely that it does (I assume deliberately) seem creepy at the outset: The director wants your initial response to be a certain unease, if not revulsion. Of Human Bondage
  • Everything dropped from her — clouds, dress, basket, diamond — all that one had called the creeper and convolvulus. A Haunted House, and other short stories
  • That beautiful and common vine, the Virginia creeper, is a vivid cherry-color. Rural Hours
  • All three deal with problems that creep quietly below the surface of society. Times, Sunday Times
  • Go quiet. Creep along, maybe catch kill snake for pot.
  • I am thoroughly disillusioned by the insipidity that is creeping into all aspects of daily life.
  • Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
  • Two million years ago it was buried under a creeping blanket of ice.
  • Its shocked expression looks more like a simper as it sits on Brewer's shoulder, perfectly arranged to look like it's creeping up from behind.
  • Heck, I was creeped out by the cult following of Ron Paul this year, a politician I agree with a lot, so I certainly am going to get the willies from the love-fest for an admitted statist like Obama. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » One Year Later
  • When in doubt, overcommunicate - that's the best way to "minimize the drama" that can creep into complex global operations involving partners InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs
  • The only possible way I could have seen England coming unstuck would have been if they had allowed complacency to creep in. The Sun
  • Doubtless he has been to the ends of the earth in search of all the most rare and disgusting creepy-crawlies.
  • The yellow flower spikes of a dwarf mullein or verbascum and the delicate white and pink trumpets of a creeping convolvulus defied my attempts at precise identification but were delightful nevertheless.
  • After a somewhat creepy beginning down on the farm, the film is just a screamer.
  • He conjured up a vision of this strange forgotten kink in the world's littoral, of the long meandering channels that spread and divaricate and spend their burden of mud and silt within the thunderbelt of Atlantic surf, of the dense tangled vegetation that creeps into the shimmering water with root and sucker. Tono Bungay
  • If you look very carefully at the setting full Moon that morning, you may notice a slightly darker shading creeping over the lunar surface. Times, Sunday Times
  • aws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in. 
  • Awesome, a creepy-looking ex-Nazi Pope in ornate robes and a huge funny hat. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
  • Okay, so passionately kissing the dearly deceased is creepy as all get out, but what about Bill Hader swapping spit with a dog? Watch: Zach Galifianakis “Pageant Talk” SNL Sketch (Video)
  • And a freshly 'burgled' house is rather a creepy place for a young girl to return to all alone .... Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs
  • These wigwams were built of branches of trees placed in a circle, which are bound at the top by a kind of creeper called supple-jack. The Red True Story Book
  • The selected candidate will be responsible for CREEPS Inc. corporate messaging and branding to advance sales of our cheap to manufacture, high profit margin line of big name consumable products such as ANXIETY, FEAR and TOTAL IGNORANCE as CREEPS continues its decades of success to crush and destroy the capacity of ailing competitors selling OPTIMISM built using expensive High Hopes processes based on inclusive collaborative methods that prop up the menace of human decency and shared values. Progressive Bloggers
  • Sanford is a creep, without any perspective on how he may be viewed, and, his most recent skin crawling disclosures show a narcistic side. Sanford leaves to visit family in Florida
  • The production that set the New York and London stages astir will creep into Tokyo Nov.16-19 at the Sun Mall Theater in Shinjuku.
  • Some call them a joke, poseurs who pastiche the look, moves and sound of classic, brothel-creeping rock'n'roll; others call them the coolest band in the world.
  • As if accipiters didn't look creepy enough as it is.
  • A series of child abductions is also plaguing the city, executed by a creepy figure the media refers to as the Mad Hatter, named after his appearance. Contest: Where Could The Dark Knight Go Next? « FirstShowing.net
  • The one thing I do love about Valentine's Day is being able to post my favorite creepy valentines.
  • More protestations of innocence followed and shortly afterwards, creepiness slunk in.
  • I always hated that statue. It gave me the creeps.
  • The rhythms of the cortège creep back in, as does the nervous main theme of the first movement.
  • After 22 cuts of the whip, he was starting to feel the pain creeping through his mind.
  • The unmoved expression slowly creeping over Lily's face prompted him to continue explaining post-haste.
  • All people knew (or thought they knew) that he had made himself immensely rich; and, for that reason alone, prostrated themselves before him, more degradedly and less excusably than the darkest savage creeps out of his hole in the ground to propitiate, in some log or reptile, the Deity of his benighted soul. Little Dorrit
  • Jamal creeps into Forrester's apartment for a dare, but accidentally leaves his notebook behind.
  • They lurk in the woods, they watch through the darkness from roadside verges and creep up on unsuspecting victims. Times, Sunday Times
  • In London, at a distance from all this tragedy of courage, I felt that I had slipped back to a lower plane; a kind of flabbiness was creeping into my blood -- the old selfish fear of life and love of comfort. Carry On Letters in War-Time
  • Hannah nodded her head again, a faint smile creeping across her face.
  • I will listen to NPR not just for Garrison Keillor and his creepy, femmy (ph) voice. Comedian Lisa Lampanelli Plays Not My Job
  • In the middle stood a small mound, looking as if it had been made artificially, with a kind of arbour on the top overgrown with some sort of creeper and shut in by trees. Chatterbox, 1905.
  • He knows the geology and botany, can describe all that creeps and crawls, bounds and flies and, above all, is able and willing to share his enthusiasms.
  • Armed with only an acoustic guitar, My Morning Jacket's frontman falls into the delicate opening strains of ‘Bermuda Highway, ‘his ghostly caterwaul creeping up my spine like a fever.’
  • Dressed in black (how obvious) the person was creeping toward the house, ducking behind bushes and hedges.
  • The upright stems branched from creeping branching horizontal rhizomes that bore delicate hair-like roots.
  • It's whipgloss, ladies: the grasses steep-edged in the storm, dense with hornets trying to trick their way under the roots while the stains keep creeping out of my fist, moistening the knee of my pants, your pants, our pants leaving us stranded like creatures that gurgle under the waste as the mud hardens. Gloss
  • The sight of the cold, damp prison cell, with rats running about, made her flesh creep.
  • The cattle move about the field, the drift boulders slowly creep down the slopes; there is no doubt that the final source of the force is in both cases the same; what we call gravity, a name for a mystery, is the form it takes in the case of the rocks, and what we call vitality, another name for a mystery, is the form it takes in the case of the cattle; without the solar and stellar energy, could there be any motion of either rock or beast? The Breath of Life
  • Doubts creep in only when you are not winning. The Sun
  • We're a 110-acre theme park with alligators, snakes, spiders, and creepy-crawly stuff.
  • There was a dankness in the air, a smell of creeping poverty which emanated from the beggars and rose to enfold them all. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • You know, creepy images on videotape and icky looking kids lurking in the back blackness of the frame.
  • We're programmed to believe that the athletes we watch are all crooks, criminals and creeps.
  • Never put anything on Facebook that you would not want your boss, your creepy stalky ex-lover, or your young students/clients to find out. Why I'm deleting my Facebook account
  • The pilot episode/movie does an excellent job of establishing the characters and backstory, and creates a quietly understated atmosphere of creepiness.
  • I have tried sarcasm, pathos, statistics, rude and crass personal ad hominem attacks, but they don't see.", he said to himself as he rose over the esker and spotted the village as dusk creeped forward. "Americans Like Big Government: They just don't really know it yet."
  • For suddenly he became conscious that it was there, behind the trees somewhere lurking, a curious kind of stilly glimmer creeping about the air, along the ground, in and out of the tree-stems. A Silent Wooing
  • Data on rainfall, rainsplash, overland flow and soil creep were collected with the help of splashboards, erosion pins, erosion plots, raingauges and channel cross-sections on slopes of 0 to 38.
  • Some of them are really creepy. Times, Sunday Times
  • No one ever goes to the abyss because it's too wide and deep and creepy and cold.
  • If anyone really cared about the welfare of slugs and other creepy-crawlies, they would make the use of poisons mandatory, and forbid gardeners to keep nematode worms in their gardens.
  • She proposed to do this closing at the first moment of sheer intolerableness, and that moment seemed well reached when she entered Creeper Cottage and realized what the attic, the kitchen, and the pump really meant. The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight
  • Low, mounding chamomile and creeping thymes grow between the nemesias.
  • In a moment, the forest was quiet again, and the flying and creeping things slithered and crawled to view the carnage.
  • By having signals mixed up in their brains, volunteers were made to feel that a creepy presence was behind them. Times, Sunday Times
  • The unmoved expression slowly creeping over Lily's face prompted him to continue explaining post-haste.
  • My mom or Carol Ann Susi (the voice on “The Big Bang Theory”) they have to cast a creepy woman. Flixnjoystix.com! » FlixnJoystix Presents: The ReCasting Call! Jon The Mick Recasts The ’80s Classic: THE GOONIES!
  • These larvæ are also found in the stomachs of horses, whom they sometimes destroy; another species of them adhere to the anus of horses, and creep into the lowest bowel, and are called botts; and another species enters the frontal sinus of sheep, occasioning a vertigo called the turn. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes
  • Fifty feet below the larva, an adult of the same species creeps across the rocky seafloor in search of a meal.
  • Tom thinks Wendy is super cute, judging by his creeper stare, so he has her start working right away in the toy department.
  • In the darkness, she could hear the curtains creeping on the draught. CHAMELEON
  • 2 Comments 10 - This is outstanding - the Diff'rent Strokes opening titles overdubbed with creepy music. Hecklerspray
  • Over the bedstead (more often than not, by the way, it is composed of four planks of varying lengths and thickness, placed across two trestles) I used first to place my oilskin, then my _p'u-k'ai_, and that little creeper which rhymes with hug did not disturb me much. Across China on Foot
  • He has an “assistant” of sorts thats actually much creepier and deadlier, which is good because he gets most of the bad-guy screen time. In Darkness » Blog Archive » Review: Borderlands
  • It was thought," says Nashe, in his Quaternio, "a kind of solecism, and to savour of effeminacy, for a young gentleman in the flourishing time of his age to creep into a coach, and to shroud himself from wind and weather: our great delight was to out-brave the blustering boreas upon a great horse; to arm and prepare ourselves to go with Mars and Bellona into the field was our sport and pastime; coaches and caroches we left unto them for whom they were first invented, for ladies and gentlemen, and decrepit age and impotent people. Bracebridge Hall
  • HE recovered the shoebrush from under the window of Tabby, the young assistant house-master, and tucking it into his pocket, skirted the outer limits of the school, dodged behind a fence, and creeping on all-fours, made a wide detour via the pond and rejoined the high road to Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World
  • All of the sudden, this alien bothered me much more than any creepy creature from a sci-fi movie.
  • You find here enormous acacias, monkey-bread trees, raphia palms and baobabs; less gloom, and fewer creeping and hanging plants. The Pools of Silence
  • It's an atmospheric work - the camera creeps like a stalker through subterranean tunnels. Times, Sunday Times
  • We passed under the arch of green creepers and entered my room.
  • This - this creepy silence - will be the consequence of dusting off rarely used statutes to still the tongues of leakers and intimidate the press in its pursuit of truth, fame and choice restaurant tables.
  • Over the period of a month or so, the temp kept creeping up even though the room temperature is maintained relatively constant.
  • He was really creepy and there is no doubt he wanted to get me in that car. The Sun
  • The pillars were adorned in an exceedingly tasteful manner with vases of various flowers including dahlias, sunflowers and chrysanthemums and long trails of ivy and coloured creeper.
  • The cobbles were cool on my feet - I had not even put on sandals for fear of being heard creeping across the marble floor of my home.
  • Written by Christos N. Gage • Art by Chris Samnee • Cover by Lee Bermejo “An exquisitely creepy crime story loaded with twists. DC Comics for February 2010 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
  • There are countless examples of the milestone turning into a millstone as the prospect of three figures creeps closer. Times, Sunday Times
  • Oh, and while we here at Flashlight Worthy haven't read all the books on the list below, when it comes to the creepiest house ever encountered in a book? Peter Steinberg: Halloween Books: 7 'Flashlight Worthy' Novels Featuring Spooky Houses (PHOTOS)
  • Jupiter creeps rightward by a bit less than a finger's width each day, while Venus climbs a little higher, as if rising to meet it.

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