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"creep backward" is a grammatically correct phrase that can be used in written English.
It means to move or progress in a backward direction in a slow, sneaky, or cautious manner. This phrase is typically used when referring to something or someone moving in a low or crouching position, usually to avoid being noticed. Here is an example of how to use it in a sentence: "Feeling a sense of unease, she slowly crept backward towards the safety of the door, keeping her eyes locked on the dark figure in front of her."
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That night: I can't sleep, because however I position my head on the pillow, a beanbag's worth of pain settles in the back of my left eye and begins to creep backward and upward, into — well, I don't know where.
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Still, as it takes its place on the stage of world affairs it does so at a time when its own version of democracy seems to many to be creeping backward toward authoritarianism.
Across the region and the U.S., retailers hoping to cash in on the Christmas rush discounted goods for an event that has come to be known as Black Friday -- post-Thanksgiving sales that have crept backward well into Turkey Day Thursday.
But then the dates of Gibson-action have been creeping steadily backward.
The model has also been used to address some original experimental evidences involving back stresses, Bauschinger effect, backward creep and strain recovery.
The main trade off of the backward approach is that time-dependent phenomena, such as creep, shrinkage or cable relaxation, cannot be directly computed as the analysis is performed according to the reversed time direction.
The creep crept on.
Vines creep.
(Lawsuits creep forward).
You pathetic creep.
diffusion creep.
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