Example sentences for: creep

How can you use “creep” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Many of these outfits seem intended for actors in 1940s Bible spectaculars, or 1950s screen dramas set in the 1920s, or present-day screen comedies where the clothes exaggerate the roles--the Vamp and the Creep and the Weirdo and the Bitch.

  • But Shlaes tries to resurrect it by discussing "real bracket creep"--the process of people shifting into higher tax brackets as their real income climbs.

  • Critics deem Hurt a much underrated talent and say his performance evokes the protagonist of Thomas Mann's 1912 Death in Venice . "A creep, but a true hero" (David Denby, New York ). (Edelstein reviews the film in Slate .)

  • The Bush boys became Exhibits A and B. As network anchors and analysts batted around and refined the theory, the previously sacrosanct C word began to creep into the discussion, alongside "right-wing" and "extremist."

  • (An interesting word-choice, illustrative of how in even the best edited newspaper in the country, editorial tendencies can creep into a news story.


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