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enter surreptitiously
He sneaked in under cover of darkness
In this essay, the author's personal feelings creep in
How To Use creep in In A Sentence
- 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
- With the consistent intervention of human nature, expectations do creep in and that is where the fun starts.
- Inconsistencies began to creep into his testimony.
- Little self-important copperplate fountain-penned comments such ‘Easily distracted’ start to creep into the elaboration box.
- Be particularly vigilant when you open an account, as it is possible for clerical errors to creep in when details are input.
- 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
- 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.
- Doubts creep in only when you are not winning. The Sun
- 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