Sentence examples for stole upon from inspiring English sources

A look of awe stole upon the anchorman's face.

He's been a powerful figure in my life, the remedy to a disabling fear that stole upon me unexpected one day.

I read "The Prime of Life" for the first time in 2013, coming across a water-stained mass-market paperback from the 1970s in a house in Cape Cod, a copy that I stole upon departure.

It steals upon you when it steals upon you.

I've been thinking about the way autumn has stolen upon us.

After the vehicle was stolen upon their return, the friends vowed to buy a second bus for another trip.

Mind you, the play trades in a subtle glory, the kind that steals upon you furtively and without the help of advance PR.

"At each End of the Canoe stands an Indian," noted a history of Virginia in 1722, "with a Gig, or pointed Spear... stealing upon the Fish, without any Noise".

But more unnerving is the question that gradually steals upon you: You're in a library, so where are all the bookshelves?With a shudder, perhaps, you understand — this is the 21st century now, no kidding, and we must see libraries in a whole new way.

Situations yielding silently to new configurations, feelings fading imperceptibly or stealing upon us, shifts in the atmosphere around us: time in the novel is made up of these chromatic transitions, and the usual name for them in the history of the form is the chapter.

How can you tell whether the universal social lubricant and one of life's true joys is harming more than helping you? Alcoholism steals upon you gradually at least it did in my case.