Example sentences for: creeping

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

  • Creeping plants now climb the sheer walls, providing a new home to numerous birds, lizards, and frogs.

  • And God said, Let us make man [Adam] in our own image after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over all the cattle, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

  • In short, nothing in the stories alleviates a creeping suspicion that this disease, while of great concern to newspaper editors with summer places in Connecticut and children at Camp Heapumwampum, is hardly on a par with say, rat bites, lead-paint poisoning, and malnutrition suffered by inner-city kids.

  • This casual use of the auxiliary do seems to be creeping back into English usage, especially among waiters for some reason, who are increasingly wont to announce, “As the catch of the day, we do have red snapper.

  • 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.


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