Example sentences for: crept

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

  • Of course, if a researcher tampers with the evidence, making a unilateral, unsupported claim or assumption that a word means something that it does not, then that does not constitute semantic change: it is what is known as dirty work at the crossroads, and M&S are indulging in a bit of mischief by suggesting that semantic change either has taken place or is taking place because they have some evidence that a certain change in usage had crept in.

  • Wednesday's International Herald Tribune described current efforts to remove "military jargon, acronyms and politically correct euphemisms" that crept into the Indonesian language during the 32-year rule of President Suharto.

  • The liberal Guardian had an emotive front page story on the initiative under a seven-column headline "Now is the time for courage," and an editorial expressing relief that the Spice Girls had crept into the No.

  • Preferences have crept back in, shelters are returning (see Slate 's do-it-yourself tax shelter), and figuring out your taxes is more complicated than ever.

  • But when I crept with leaves to hideThose parts, which maids keep unespy'd,Such fleeting pleasures there I took,That with the fancie I awook;And found (Ah me!)


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