'creep' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'creep' with 9 example sentences.
- creep noun
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: someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
: a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
: a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
: a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
- creep verb
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: move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
: to go stealthily or furtively
: grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)
: show submission or fear
This place gives me the creeps.
The cat crept toward the bird.
My mother-in-law gives me the creeps.
You probably think I'm a creep.
Fear crept into my heart and settled there.
Old age creeps upon us unnoticed.
Disguising himself as a peasant, he crept into the castle town.
We crept toward the enemy.
A thief crept in through the window.