crept

[ krept ]

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of creep.

crept

/ krɛpt /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of creep

Example Sentences

But after I had my baby, it crept back up.

From Slate

Jurado said she wants to help Latino residents fight the gentrification that radically transformed her native Highland Park and has crept into Boyle Heights over the past decade.

From Los Angeles Times

In the election four years later, the winner, Mahama, crept over the 50% threshold in the first round by less than 80,000 votes.

From BBC

I tested the body and lip balm options while out hiking and camping in Kings Canyon National Park, and neither melted in the tube, even as the temperature crept beyond 90 degrees.

From Los Angeles Times

To then find themselves trailing 3-2 and down to 10 men is bad enough, but then they got themselves level late on, before being beaten in stoppage time when Bryan Mbeumo’s cross crept in.

From BBC

Related Words

• glide
• inch
• lurk
• slink
• slither
• snake
• sneak
• tiptoe
• wriggle