Creeping has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
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| 1. | I'm getting a spare tire around my waist. I guess it's middle age creeping up on me. | |
| 2. | Fear left, hope came, and then the first real improvements began creeping in. | |
| 3. | And then came creeping over her face and eyes flies without wings; she winked and blinked, but they could not fly away, for their wings had been pulled off; this, added to the hunger she felt, was horrible torture. | |
| 4. | Tom is creeping me out. | |
| 5. | This is really creeping me out. | |
| 6. | Howison in his "Sketches of Upper Canada" relates that on one moonlit Christmas Eve he saw an Indian creeping cautiously through the woods. | |
| 7. | "And now comes the strangest part of the affair. What do you suppose was above the murdered man?" I felt a creeping of the flesh, and a presentiment of coming horror, even before Sherlock Holmes answered. "The word RACHE, written in letters of blood," he said. | |
| 8. | I tiptoed down the path and stooped behind the low wall which surrounded the stunted orchard. Creeping in its shadow, I reached a point whence I could look straight through the uncurtained window. | |
| 9. | "There is no hope for me," said Will. "Even if you loved me as well as I love you - even if I were everything to you-I shall most likely always be very poor: on a sober calculation, one can count on nothing but a creeping lot. It is impossible for us ever to belong to each other. It is perhaps base of me to have asked for a word from you. I meant to go away into silence, but I have not been able to do what I meant." | |
| 10. | Sami could see Layla creeping around the room. |