How To Use Creep in In A Sentence
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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
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With the consistent intervention of human nature, expectations do creep in and that is where the fun starts.
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Inconsistencies began to creep into his testimony.
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Little self-important copperplate fountain-penned comments such ‘Easily distracted’ start to creep into the elaboration box.
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Be particularly vigilant when you open an account, as it is possible for clerical errors to creep in when details are input.
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When in doubt, overcommunicate - that's the best way to "minimize the drama" that can creep into complex global operations involving partners
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The only possible way I could have seen England coming unstuck would have been if they had allowed complacency to creep in.
The Sun
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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.
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Doubts creep in only when you are not winning.
The Sun
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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
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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
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"It ill behooves a tube inspector to let a bias towards a meaningless relationship creep into his reporting" I said.
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He went on to identify the fundamental dualism that always tended to creep into demonological arguments.
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Only when she talks about a visit to an orphanage does a trace of emotion creep in.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the strange feel of what was to come for me
the experience that would define my shape and view of politics and it’s relevance to my existence
began to creep in the most subtle of ways
before the trip even began
Ugotsoul Diary Entry
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Black and white do not exist, they creep into the story due to the unpredictable magic of film processing or defective film stock.
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It is a place like the court; but instead of pales there are hurdles, which are made of sticks that will bend, such as osier twigs; and they are twisted and made very fast, so that nothing can creep in, and nothing can get out.
Harry's Ladder to Learning
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While the UN loss was no surprise given Russia's and China's joint aversion to UN/NATO mission creep in Libya the double veto camouflages a more vexing development in the Eastern Mediterranean: a renewed effort by Russia's Vladimir Putin to reconsolidate a foot-hold in the Middle East against anti-democratic forces.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Syria's Double Diplomatic Muscle
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Moreover, even among experienced transcribers errors can creep in.
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The tale took some ten minutes to tell, Sandison being careful to allow no inconsistencies to creep in.
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All sorts of rubbish can creep in or get mixed in to add to the volume.
Taking Drugs Seriously
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Add to that his Bond villain in Golden Eye, his scene-stealing creep in Circle of Friends and Gwyneth Paltrow's pompadoured pal in Emma and he proves himself not only eclectic but electric.
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All sorts of rubbish can creep in or get mixed in to add to the volume.
Taking Drugs Seriously
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Then civilianisation began to creep in and within no time at all information from the collator became difficult to access, SOCO only attended certain jobs and Admin became a nightmare.
I Can Tell We’re Going To Be Friends « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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I thought I'd decided, but then doubts started to creep in.
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He had jist killt himsel savin at Phemy, rinnin and fechtin on, upo 'the barest chance o' savin her life; and sae whan he set off again to gang til her, no bidin for me, he was that forfouchten 'at he hed a bluid-brak in 's breist, and was jist able, and nae mair, to creep intil the weem oot o' the snaw.
Heather and Snow
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Mistakes were starting to creep in.
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A few mistakes always creep in during the editing process.
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Under the theocracy no such loose system was possible, for heresy might enter in three different ways; first, under the early law, "blasphemers" might form a congregation and from thence creep into the company; second, an established church might fall into error; third, an unsound minister might be chosen, who would debauch his flock by securing the admission of sectaries to the sacrament.
The Emancipation of Massachusetts
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Once complications are allowed to creep in, the outcome is in danger.
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Johann would creep into the gallery to listen to the singers.
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But time and again irritations creep in which disrupt the flow of the book.
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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 outbrave 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, or The Humorists
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Thyme and nepeta are allowed to creep into the lawn and there is an abundance of old-fashioned roses.
Times, Sunday Times
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Curiously more than a fair number of covers creep in, but eventually the band warm up to some classic cuts from their album.
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Moreover, even among experienced transcribers errors can creep in.
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It was ten o'clock at night before we ventured to creep in again, and then she asked Joe why he hadn't married a Negress Slave at once?
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Considering I was the world's most careful driver, I felt some tension creep into my body.
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Bad provincial Italian tenor habits creep in at times.
Times, Sunday Times
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On top of that there are the human factors of greed, vanity or just plain ignorance that can creep in.
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At the other end, even though mistakes began to creep in, there was enough pace and verve to gee the crowd up if not break through.
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Distortion can creep in if distractions are allowed to interfere and concentration can easily be lost.
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You can see these patterns develop in Scotland's play and, when these pre-planned drills creep in, the players appear to lose their concentration and composure.
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A few mistakes always creep in during the editing process.
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Orange-red beeches rise beyond them on the slope; two hoop-tents, or kibitkas, just large enough to creep into, are near the fires, where the women are cooking the gipsy's bouillon, that savoury stew of all things good.
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Overall, the book is remarkably readable, partly because the editors have wisely allowed a certain quirky dryness of tone to creep in.
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He found a small crawlway that he could creep into.
Good Night, Mrs. Calabash
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Others believe that God inspired human beings to write it, thereby allowing errors to creep in.
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After 2000, however, exceptions otherwise known as carve-outs to M.A.C. clauses began to creep in.
NYT > Home Page
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The home side edged in front on 25 minutes when Yury Kovtun sliced an attempted cross from the left and saw his effort creep into the corner of Radovan Radacovic's goal.
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I thought I'd decided, but then doubts started to creep in.
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Now he knew better, though Taylor still felt the sick feeling of envy creep in him whenever he visited the Moretti household.
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There was an old fiddler, a kind of Orpheus of the slums, who would sometimes creep in there and take his post in a corner and begin to play, happy if the mad lads threw him halfpence, or thrust a half-drained tankard under his tearful old nose: happy, too, if they did not -- as they often did -- toss the cannikin at him out of mere lightness of heart and drunkenness of wit.
Marjorie
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Little flaws creep in and can be hard to remove.
Times, Sunday Times
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At one point, it can manifest bloodcurdling creatures to chase and taunt the boys, and then it seems to abandon all that to hide in a closet and snigger, then creep into the dreams of the boys and torture them psychologically ad nauseam.
Archive 2010-07-01
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White, a big-hitting right-hander who captured the Scottish National championships at the same venue last weekend, also made a couple of early inroads, before unforced errors started to creep into his game.
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Biases can creep in in extremely subtle ways, and researchers can, quite unconsciously, favour some groups and disfavour others.
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After crossing the gritty plain where the outriding developments of greater Los Angeles creep inexorably outward, the road climbed steeply, all curves and switchbacks.
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In this essay, the author's personal feelings creep in
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"It ill behooves a tube inspector to let a bias towards a meaningless relationship creep into his reporting" I said.
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With nerves starting to set in, a few unforced errors started to creep into Reta's game.
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The only possible way I could have seen England coming unstuck would have been if they had allowed complacency to creep in.
The Sun
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They creep into the body cavities of chicks and eat them alive.
Times, Sunday Times
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Again and again loneliness and dissatisfaction would creep into my spirit when the parties were over and I was alone.
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The sun has just set beneath the shadows of the buildings around me, although the light of sunset is reflected in the river, giving everything around me a crimson glow as night begins to creep into the eastern sky.
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A few mistakes always creep in during the editing process.
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But let a bad word creep into a school principal's vocabulary, and he'll go straight to the pokey.
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Clark's puckish grin and chiselled cheekbones finally creep into view.
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Doubts began to creep in shortly before Thanksgiving.
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Johann would creep into the gallery to listen to the singers.
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Mistakes then began to creep in as the pressure rose, including Brough scuffing a gettable penalty, and the game began to slowly eke away.
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He should instead creep in by little and little.
The Sun
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Errors in satellite to receiver distances can creep in if conditions within the ionosphere, the electrically charged outer layer of the atmosphere, slow down the signal.
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I would creep in and with stealthy footsteps explore the second-floor.
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All sorts of rubbish can creep in or get mixed in to add to the volume.
Taking Drugs Seriously
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This isn't meant as a boast: I'm sure that minor errors creep in occasionally.
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What is more depressing is the way this escape from the facts is beginning to creep into Western discourse on Kosovo.
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Others believe that God inspired human beings to write it, thereby allowing for errors to creep in.
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A covering defender stretched to block the cross and was very unfortunate to see his attempted clearance creep in at the near post despite the best efforts of the substitute goalkeeper.
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I now anticipate the full manuscript as coming in somewhere around 102,000 words, for the first pass, and reducing to approximately 99,000 words after I go through and do the obligate clean-and-jerk of all those little unnecessary bits that always creep in during the writing process.
Seanan_mcguire: Word count -- Discount Armageddon.
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For no viviparous animal, be it apodous or be it possessed of feet, is so given to creep into holes as are the ovipara.
On the Parts of Animals
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In the wishful shelter of ignorance or amnesia, an abiding melancholy tends to creep into the populace.
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They also rigorously plan their concerts to ensure the minimum room for errors to creep in.
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For no viviparous animal, be it apodous or be it possessed of feet, is so given to creep into holes as are the ovipara.
On the Parts of Animals
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Having allowed laxity to creep into the fiscal policy management, control was reimposed in the last two years.
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Errors continued to creep into their game as they attempted to force an opening.
