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creepy-crawlies

NOUN
  1. feelings of dislike and anxiety
    the cave gave me the creepy-crawlies

How To Use creepy-crawlies In A Sentence

  • Our reaction to a tickling sensation may have arisen from a defence against creepy-crawlies. Times, Sunday Times
  • Observe live bugs and even hold the creepy-crawlies in your hands. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Over and over again he regales the reader with proof that snakes, spiders, crocodiles and creepy-crawlies have acquired a taste for tourist blood.
  • Doubtless he has been to the ends of the earth in search of all the most rare and disgusting creepy-crawlies.
  • 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.
  • There were dense walls of soft corals, sponges, anemones and hydroids, nudibranchs, creepy-crawlies and lots of fish.
  • Antonia's creations had thoroughly intrigued me when I met she and her family at the Palm Sunday Crafts Fair the previous March; I eagerly looked forward to seeing the bubbly cauldron where she cast her magic spells and brought her bewitched creepy-crawlies to life. Antonia Cruz Rafael: the ceramics of Ocumicho, Michoacan
  • Another acquaintance of mine didn't believe in chemical pesticides for gardening so he cut out squares from old carpet and placed one around each Brussels sprout plant to prevent creepy-crawlies climbing up.
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