Sentence examples for creeping from inspiring English sources

They also called on Labour to campaign against creeping privatisation in the NHS, arguing the current "harmful, market-led approach" should be replaced by a system driven by "care, not competition".

Everything that can is creeping back down below to the warmth of deeper soils.

But before long, the creeping daylight stirred me awake.

Santorum is right on social issues, but has never let his love of social issues stand in the way of the creeping expansion of the welfare state.

His aggressive style and the pro-security services policies he pursued as secretary of state for Northern Ireland from 1976 to 1979 were welcomed by unionists as a protection against creeping integration into the whole of Ireland.

It is true that much of the legislation – the series of counter-terrorism acts, the long battle over how long someone can be detained without trial, the creeping ivy of surveillance – was justified on the grounds of terrorism.

It is also creeping into non-gaming spaces: FourSquare, for example, attempts to gamify real life by making you feel like you've won something by having your morning coffee in the same place every day.

There's no creeping sense of violent dread that Dot Allison's incredible voice cannot soothe.

And in the end, the father, becoming disabled himself – developing a creeping disabling condition – and with the terrible burden of Joey, hates life so much he kills himself, then the audience applauds.

But things weren't been going well and the first hint of frustration was creeping in.

Most people in Britain want to see us have an economic relationship with Europe, a common market if you like which is is what they voted for in the first place [in the 1975 referendum] and do not want to see the ever creeping hand of Europe over British national affairs".