How to Use creep in a Sentence
- I caught him creeping down the stairs to the kitchen.
- She crept toward the edge of the roof and looked over.
- The hours crept by as we waited for morning.
- The price of gasoline has crept back up to three dollars a gallon.
- A few mistakes crept in during the last revision of the paper.
- She crept into bed next to her sleeping husband.
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Drop it right where doubt might creep in.
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Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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Fear of errors seemed to creep in.
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Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
21 Dec. 2025
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The fear was creeping in, for sure.
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Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
3 Oct. 2025
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Pain crept into the set of his mouth.
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Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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Mildew creeps along the corners of the tub.
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Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Apr. 2026
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Thin clouds crept across my field of vision.
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Hannah Walhout,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Dec. 2025
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Still, the doubt is starting to creep in.
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Harriette Cole,
Mercury News,
20 Aug. 2025
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This is where over-reliance creeps in.
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Gregory Lipich,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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During my first walks, doubts crept in.
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Diane Penningroth,
Midwest Living,
12 June 2026
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Here’s where the mistake creeps in.
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Lutz Finger,
Forbes.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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Before her first run, the angst crept back in.
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Zak Keefer,
New York Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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There are some upbeat stats to creep a smile.
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Anthony D'alessandro,
Deadline,
1 Sep. 2025
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What’s that warmth creeping over you?
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Literary Hub,
2 Jan. 2026
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That’s a big reason weight tends to creep back.
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Ryan Brennan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
10 June 2026
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That’s a big reason weight tends to creep back.
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Ryan Brennan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 June 2026
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But that’s where the hidden costs start to creep in.
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Maria Williams,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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Move too far away from it and the outside chill creeps in.
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Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
23 Dec. 2025
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Hints of noise and doubt start to creep in around the edges of the songs on disc two.
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Simon Vozick-Levinson,
Rolling Stone,
22 Sep. 2025
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Keep lawns thick and lush to leave little room for the weed to creep in.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
16 Apr. 2026
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But the culture wars always find a way to creep in.
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Philip Elliott,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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Grow as a creeping vine or along a trellis.
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Miranda Crowell,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Jan. 2026
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But danger creeps in, now that the heat has broken.
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Ava Wallace,
New York Times,
1 June 2026
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Bacteria can still creep and grow in a sweaty glove.
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Jessica Safavimehr,
Southern Living,
30 Jan. 2026
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In the days leading up to leaving, doubt crept in.
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Jordan Greene,
PEOPLE,
20 Apr. 2026
- That guy gives me the creeps.
- I get the creeps every time he walks by.
- I hate snakes. They give me the creeps.
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When markets surge, greed creeps in.
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Bob Chitrathorn,
Forbes.com,
20 Mar. 2026
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What most of us get instead is the slow creep of burnout.
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Rochelle Ratkaj,
Rolling Stone,
4 Nov. 2025
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The days when self-blame creeps back in are less frequent now.
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Faith Karimi,
CNN Money,
29 Nov. 2025
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In the dead of night, a group of armed thieves creeps toward a locked vault.
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Olivia Potts,
Longreads,
28 May 2026
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Every scope creep showed you a boundary to set.
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Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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There is also the risk of function creep.
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Calvin Yadav,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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And are people still talking about this guy, this creep?
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Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Aug. 2025
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Salty water creeps into aquifers near the coast.
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Devika Rao,
TheWeek,
23 Jan. 2026
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Shouldn’t health systems stay in their lane and resist this scope creep?
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George Dalembert,
STAT,
1 Oct. 2022
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Five pounds of lager, one outstretched arm, and the slow creep of regret.
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Martin Fritz Huber,
Outside,
6 Nov. 2025
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The point is that what makes a naked creep is not his lack of clothing but his creepiness.
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Outside Online,
19 Nov. 2021
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Most of the creep factor in Mindhunter is, well, in your mind.
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Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
27 June 2022
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No wandering, no project creep.
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Neil Senturia,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Oct. 2025
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No doubt many creeps of the bracket were resented along the way.
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Kansas City Star,
24 May 2026
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As fall creeps closer, so does the end of daylight saving time.
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Shelby Slade,
AZCentral.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The kids were unimpressed, and my efforts to rein in feature creep fell on deaf ears.
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Simon Hill,
WIRED,
28 Dec. 2022
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My credit card creep’s first move was to charge about $60 at a restaurant.
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Shira Ovide,
Washington Post,
27 Jan. 2023
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The age creep driving 5-for-5 doesn’t exist here.
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Daryl G. Jones,
Sportico.com,
15 May 2026
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The risk of feature creep is a common problem for new products.
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Bhaskar Ahuja,
Forbes,
5 May 2022
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Your wife is the one who is confused by allowing this creep to come into your house.
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Annie Lane,
oregonlive,
8 Feb. 2022
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That reserve goes against the maximalist creep of the past decade or so.
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Stephen Kearse,
Pitchfork,
11 Mar. 2026
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Far better is the slow creep, the horror that teases and then threatens.
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Mark Olsen Staff Writer,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Aug. 2021
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One of the most common impediments to projects is scope creep.
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Expert Panel®,
Forbes,
21 June 2022
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Everybody on the right creeps left, and everybody on the left creeps right.
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Charlotte Observer,
30 Mar. 2026
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If the reader cannot answer those questions quickly, doubt creeps in.
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Jd Barker,
Rolling Stone,
16 Apr. 2026
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Maintain a roadmap to capture future phase features to avoid scope creep.
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Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Fine with some random creep assaulting their kid and walking away scot-free.
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George Saunders,
The New Yorker,
23 Aug. 2021
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