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Example sentences for: creeping

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Even with splendid bridges crossing the Douro and a red-roofed jumble of buildings creeping up the hillside, its attractions are less obvious than the capital’s.
But all the while the shadow of doom was creeping nearer and nearer, till came a day when it pulled off its whiskers and pounced.
As a speaker of AE sojourning for several months each year in Britain during the past twenty years, I have been struck by the creeping changes I have perceived in the RP pronunciation of some ordinary words (controversy, disciplinary) and of proper names: news-readers on BBC Radio 4 and World Service tend to stress Afghanistan and Khomeini on the last syllable where formerly one heard it stressed on the sound.
Morning-after thinking about the septuplets is creeping into the coverage.
A certain aura of creeping decay does surround the Bronfmans, and it is tempting to view them as a study in dynastic decline.