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How to use creep in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Creep means to move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground. Example: “Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.”

Examples of creep by meaning

verbTo move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.

  • Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.
  • One evening, while the Rabbit was lying there alone, watching the ants that ran to and fro between his velvet paws in the grass, he saw two strange beings creep out of the tall bracken near him.1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

verbTo move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.

  • He tried to creep past the guard without being seen.
  • She crept up the stairs, keeping well into the side because she knew they were less likely to creak this way.1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 84

verbTo make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.

  • Prices have been creeping up all year.

verbTo move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to insinuate itself or oneself.

  • Old age creeps upon us.

verbTo slip, or to become slightly displaced.

  • The collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying.
  • The quicksilver on a mirror may creep.

verbTo move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.

  • A creeping sycophant.

verbTo have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.

  • The sight made my flesh creep.

verbTo covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.

  • "Now you want the nigga out 'cause he creeping with his baby momma."2016, Sherika Moore, Been Hustlen, →ISBN

More sentences with creep

  • That vicar used to be an evangelical, but she's crept up the candle in recent years.From the entry candle
  • We crept out on tiptoe so as not to awake the children.From the entry on tiptoe
  • Walking through the graveyard late at night really gives me the creeps.From the entry give someone the creeps
  • The robbers crept out of the forest and blindsided the traveller.From the entry blindside
  • I hope that creep gets what's coming to him, and soon!From the entry get what's coming to one
  • I get the creeps walking down that street, even in broad daylight.From the entry creeps
  • The assassin crept into the royal bedchamber only after it was pitch-dark.From the entry pitch-dark
  • The lioness has to creep up behind her prey so as not to be noticed.From the entry creep up
  • She crept up behind him not making a noise.From the entry noise
  • A telltale blush crept into her cheeks as he approached.From the entry telltale
  • The creep was trying to touch up my girlfriend.From the entry touch up
  • That creep in the corner was eyeing me up.From the entry eye up
  • Though age may creep on, and indenture the brow.From the entry indenture
  • That janitor who's always talking about blood creeps me out.From the entry creep out
  • The cat crept down the stairs in silence.From the entry in silence
  • The child snivelingly crept back to its toys.From the entry snivelingly
  • I can't bear snakes. They make my flesh creep.From the entry make someone's flesh creep
  • Welp, people did warn me that text creep was par for the course for HoYoverse games, but I was still surprised.From the entry text creep
  • Our sales division promised our client a feature in our software that is currently not feasible for us to implement, which will certainly lead to feature creep.From the entry feature creep
  • Different Legends have seen a power creep in the past few seasons.2026 March 25, Jay Sarma, “All Legend changes in Apex Legends Season 28 Split 2”, in Sportskeeda, Mumbai, Maharashtra: Nazara…. From the entry power creep
  • Players began reporting ancient, decrepit, repeatedly power crept loot shortly after Heavy Metal went live this afternoon.2025 September 2, Austin Wood, “A new Destiny 2 event is giving players bugged 8-year-old loot from content so deleted that Bungie…. From the entry power creep
  • Honestly, we're so power crept these days it will probably need a buff to see play.2024 September 9, Tim Clark, “[Destiny 2 is abandoning big annual expansions and linear campaigns in favour of more frequent releases that…. From the entry play
  • Successful companies have strategies to protect their trademarks and fend off the creep of genericization, Mr.2024 September 19, Scott Cacciola, “Tupperware (the Brand) May Fail. Tupperware (the Word) Will Survive.”, in The New York Times. From the entry genericization
  • She placed the first three bombs, then crept to the final door and opened it.2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 22 May 2024. From the entry put down
  • Fruticose lichens drape and tuft; crustose and squamulose lichens creep and seep; foliose lichens layer and flake.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 84. From the entry fruticose
  • Traven, also in sock feet, had crept over to take a look.2019, Parker Avrile, Love in Flames. From the entry sock foot
  • They let a bittersome poison creep into their hearts, concerning the failings of people.2016, Graham Richardson, Standing and Waiting. From the entry bittersome
  • He tries to creep along carefully but he can't help splatching on the floor.2016, James Treadwell, Arcadia: A Novel, →ISBN, page 327. From the entry splatch
  • Well, I might be a hooraw, but I didn't creep out of no patch of skunk cabbage.2016, William T. Delamar, Atavus Falls, →ISBN. From the entry hooraw

Meaning of creep

  1. verb To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
  2. verb To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
  3. verb To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.

Full definition of creep

Questions about creep in a sentence

How do you use creep in a sentence?
Creep is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.”
What is a short sentence with creep?
“A creeping sycophant.”
What does creep mean?
Creep means to move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: creep (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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