Sentence examples for steals up from inspiring English sources

Out here in the desert, dehydration steals up on you because you don't seem to sweat.

Slowly but surely, the gentleness of Jim Jarmusch's lovely new film steals up on you.

But it has a gut-gnawing power that steals up on you.

In the coming decades, we will likely see more Internet-like revolutions, in which technology steals up silently on politics.

But while the current "Passion Play" lacks the hard and steady assurance of its immediate predecessor, it has a gut-gnawing power that steals up on you.

When he steals up, catlike, behind his prey, and then strikes with his Vulcan nerve pinch, you can't help but laugh over the inevitable horns-and-strings musical cue.

"What?" I asked, hand stealing up to my face.

Steal up on her father in his sleep somewhere?

Self might steal up or sidestep him altogether.

But its quiet rewards steal up on you.

So can the hen harrier steal up on the outside and beat the robin?