Sentence examples for creeping at from inspiring English sources

The vipers in his art – creeping at the base of a monument or painted in a nightmare forest – have crawled out of this verse.

In fact, Comic-Con events across the country have become so notorious for groping, stalking and unwanted photographing — even "upskirting" — such harassment has been termed "creeping at a con".

The mathematical model that best fits the data, he said, indicates that this portion of the fault is creeping at about one-fifth of an inch a year all the way down to where rocks get sticky and soft.

Economic growth is slow coming off a recession, it is just creeping at 2% to 2.5% this year, after 1.4% in 1996.

Based on the network of leveling, gravity and geomagnetic observations, several studies have suggested that the Babaoshan fault is creeping (at least in the near surface), while the Huangzhuang-Gaoliying fault is currently locked (e.g., Che et al., 1997).

But researchers have suspected for years that currents of molten iron circulating in Earth's outer core (creeping at about 1 meter per hour) set up the opposite magnetic poles at the antipodes.

In hospitals, information technology tends to creep at a glacial pace.

What about those other shadows that creep at the edges of our happy, sun-soaked lives?

He brought the Lakers back, going on an 8-0 binge and helping the Lakers creep at one juncture within 2 points, 79-77, to begin the fourth period.

Interlayered metachert shows evidence for dislocation creep at relatively low stresses (8 13 MPa shear stress).

Pressure solution creep is switched off, and deformation can only proceed by dislocation creep, at dramatically lower strain rates.