After a moment, the turtle creeps out of its shell and resumes its waddle across the highway. |
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Age, like a clever stealth tax, creeps up on you in the way once recommended by foot pads and press gangs. |
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He creeps toward me low to the ground, with a whiny growl of misery and accusation. |
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Even with its size, it retains a sense of delicacy, a handmade quality that creeps out of its obsessive folds. |
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The copying process, however, is deliberately made imperfect, so that the occasional error creeps in. |
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Sometimes that cold creeps in gradually and the end result is pneumonia or even a heart attack. |
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The idea is that the risks are lower because your investment creeps up in value more steadily over the years. |
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It creeps in gradually enveloping the earth, devouring the last traces of the struggling dusk. |
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I slowly put my head into my arms on my desk as sleep creeps into the corners of my eyes. |
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If you die suddenly, all sorts of creeps can instantly show up and loot your corpse. |
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The sight of Chinese acupuncture, in particular, still gives me the creeps. |
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Indigenous people who I tell these things to find it spooky, and I have to admit that it's not fun being stalked by creeps. |
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We're programmed to believe that the athletes we watch are all crooks, criminals and creeps. |
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I'll tell you why guys are so fickle at times, if you'll tell me why so many cool girls go ga-ga over creeps. |
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Jupiter creeps rightward by a bit less than a finger's width each day, while Venus climbs a little higher, as if rising to meet it. |
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Most of my friends have clown phobias, which makes my life difficult cos he creeps them out. |
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Unfortunately, these creeps are hiding behind the First Amendment and doing things that in no civilized society should be tolerated. |
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And mine is the world of the rented room, where damp creeps in in the dismal gloom and music is the only thing I own. |
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Something of that scatty, archaic, tender quality creeps into Garnett's book, too. |
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But beyond the city limits, where the kudzu creeps over buildings and trees, the mood can turn darker. |
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It's hard to screen out the creeps and the perverts and the losers while holding out hope you'll some day meet Mr. Right. |
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I can see why poker with friends might be pleasant, but solitary gambling in a commercial establishment gives me the creeps. |
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It isn't easy to articulate a moral argument against cloning, beyond the fact that it gives me the creeps. |
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It's a good time for planting evergreens and flowering shrubs, so long as they're watered well until frost creeps into the soil. |
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And it largely worked because people instinctively recoil at the idea of nosy creeps like him rifling through other people's underwear drawers. |
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The entire situation gave her the creeps, but she refused to become paralysed with fear. |
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The thought of needles poking me all over the body really gives me the creeps. |
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The song creeps rather doomily like a disgusting disease and has everything a masterpiece has to consist of. |
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A certain austerity creeps in from the fino casks, lengthening and refining the oily sweetness. |
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I think what you mostly gain getting education is this broadness that creeps into one's perspective of many things. |
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The TV version, made in 1975, still creeps me out from the corners of my memory. |
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Politics creeps into religious matters and religion imposes itself on politics. |
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I've mostly cracked the neurotic hypochondria I suffered from as a teenager, but once in a while it creeps back into my life. |
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She gets this look on her face that gives me the creeps, and I'm not the only one that feels that way. |
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But in the winter, the damp still creeps through the building and leaves the children shivering with cold. |
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He hated the dark and the fact that it was cold and there were meat carcasses hanging from hooks the whole place gave him the creeps. |
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My body starts to tremor a little bit, blush creeps around my face and eyes start to water. |
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It became a magnet for creeps, lowlifes and homeless people. |
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Because the games are being held in Ireland, they have brought the most toe-curlingly hypocritical self-congratulatory creeps in the country babbling into the limelight. |
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Is there any reason not to think of these people as gutless creeps, prepared to do the decent thing providing it requires no bravery on their part? |
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Alcohol creeps into the breast milk, in concentrations that are proportionate with the alcohol in the bloodstream. |
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This beautiful plant has two pink bell-like flowers on a slender stem and a thicker stem below, which creeps along forming small mats of the plant. |
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We may not agree with such choices, but we can respect the contextual pressures which led to them and try to show where error creeps into the argument. |
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So, the blue line creeps up as the value of your gift increases. |
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Economists are, in short, more likely than you or I to be selfish creeps. |
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He was worshipped by cartoon creeps and hot-rod hooligans alike. |
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If this news doesn't give you the creeps then you aren't thinking clearly. |
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Now the great fear is the weather, as cold creeps across the refugees' routes. |
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The Siva crescent moon waxes overhead, the shadows lengthen, the cold creeps in. |
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Spending time with Traynor and various other cold creeps gives you, deliberately, the cold creeps. |
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I think of friendships and how easily the temptation to be disloyal creeps in. |
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When he feels misunderstood, a Larry David-like querulousness creeps into his voice. |
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From creeps and trolls to hoaxes and hackers, these are the things that made us want to say sayonara to the Interwebs this year. |
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There is a slightly more political bent to the movies, and we all have a political point of view, and it creeps into the films. |
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Of course, Creekmore knew the tales about the Killer, and frankly, the house gave him the creeps. |
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And nobody fears the spotlight as creeps who would be shown for what they really are. |
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My colleague beside me said that the government does not go after some of the creeps who are pedophiles and create a registry of them. |
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The long tunnel that creeps into the limestone and 'open, and you will find a small lake, small beach and an underground stream. |
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Even so, some imprecision creeps in and the final numbers are slightly off from the beginning ones. |
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Age creeps up on all of us, from the first delicate lines spidering around our eyes in our twenties to the heavier frown lines and crow's feet of middle age. |
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A dark side nevertheless creeps into the central trio: a slithery, chromatic fugato infuses the movement with an element of foreboding. |
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Unlike the African oil palm, the trunk of the American oil palm creeps along the ground and bears flat leaves. |
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But in the 20th century, it was writers in particular who took advantage of the fact that collectors were increasingly regarded as creeps. |
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The funny side creeps in and as we laugh, the works seems to breathe even more. |
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There is some drag that affects the station and it slowly creeps down over time. |
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Certainly the most frustrating characteristic of the plant is that it creeps and therefore may easily spread and cover large patches of land. |
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Traders pile into the Dollar as financial uncertainty creeps in and risk taking evaporates. |
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It saddens me that far too much nationalism still creeps into discussions in Serbia. |
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Obviously, if you just put an ad in the paper, all the creeps would rush in to come and drink and eat on your dime! |
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This will also facilitate the identification of programmatic mission creeps by other entities. |
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These include systems with simple nest boxes, small square nest pens with heated creeps. |
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The lens creeps back towards it's original settling position but does not achieve good recovery within the 60 seconds of the test. |
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Moreover, there is none of the volatile acidity or harshness that often creeps into many of the Medocs from that year. |
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Blood pressure creeps up, digestion begins to falter, blood sugar becomes more unstable and muscles start to contract and ache. |
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When the mission becomes murky, and operations slow, bureaucracy creeps in to fill the gaps. |
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Because tribalism creeps in through the way we make appointments to public offices, offer scholarships to students, grant quotas, concessions and contracts to individuals. |
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He rewinds the tape to replay a passage about a girl he was courting at the time, and the ineffable sadness that creeps over his face is heartbreaking. |
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Manta rays cruise past, turtles lumber along, sharks scope the scene, the odd octopus creeps along the ocean floor, and further out, the whale sharks make their way north. |
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Around the bays, the continent's ancient ice-cap creeps inexorably down to the sea in shelves that crack and avalanche with the sound of howitzer blasts. |
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The black, starless sky creeps over the muddled sunset that stains the waves purple before melting away. |
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It's the weak, blow with the wind creeps who can't hack power. |
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He knows the geology and botany, can describe all that creeps and crawls, bounds and flies and, above all, is able and willing to share his enthusiasms. |
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After twenty-two months in barrel, the blueberry fruit seems remarkably straight forward, though a bit of vegetativeness creeps in around the edges. |
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Despite some of the despicable things she's done, we hope she'll find a little transcendence in the world of cads, cowards and creeps that surround her. |
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There is a gremlin which creeps into all these debates and that is that sometimes this flexibility can be used by the transport company to counter the driver's capacity to decide. |
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Far too often, the subtle devaluation of children with intellectual disabilities creeps in, and transgressions against their dignity are overlooked. |
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Lily turf creeps in and among other common plants, such as impatiens and leatherleaf fern. |
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Anytime hitting begins to look easy for a batter, an almost inexorable carelessness or carefreeness creeps into his swing, and the magic leaks away. |
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Then, a few days ago, I had a conversation with a young chap who proceeded to explain to me how God didn't exist, how Bach's music gave him the creeps, how it wasn't a party until you had puked, and so on. |
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As March creeps into April, the panoply of summer birddom has begun to reassemble. |
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She did, however, spot Gordon Burns over by the bar. Yeesh. He gave her the creeps. |
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High above the clouds in Southern Bavaria, a small figure slowly creeps up the cable ear wire of the Zugspitze. |
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Upon approaching the dock, the vessel is progressively slowed down and aligned, so that it creeps towards the 'vee' formed by the wing-walls of the dock. |
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But as the start of the season creeps closer I'm a little bit edgy about picking up unwanted injuries, so we'll see how things go. |
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Under boss Dave Jones we are all too aware of Cardiff's tendency to fade as the season creeps towards its climax. |
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Now at last we have good news to reflect upon as the Christmas season creeps closer after Bombardier showed their mettle in the hardest of times. |
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And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food. |
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How, against a contemporary background, do you mourn an octogenarian father, nearly blind, his heart enlarged, his lungs filling with fluid, who creeps, stumbles, gives off the odors, the moldiness or gassiness of old men. |
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We rarely have days like that when the cold creeps in. |
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All of this gives me the creeps, and while I stick the occasional optimistic tenner on a longshot first goalscorer, I've never thought of myself as a gambler. |
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The impact of science on society creeps up on us all. |
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Strong demand will likely continue to support soy prices, but it will be increasingly balanced out by the looming huge South American bean crop, which creeps closer to fruition each week. |
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In other words their flesh creeps and their insides knot. |
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As the Christmas season creeps ever closer so does the opulence trend. |
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I get the creeps walking down that street, even in broad daylight. |
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Walking through the graveyard late at night really gives me the creeps. |
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That janitor who's always talking about blood creeps me out. |
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