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74 Sentences With "crept up on"

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Entitlement crept up on me the way a serial-killer would.
He is 61 now, and life has crept up on him.
I've got no idea how January 11 crept up on us already.
The struggle at Khe Sanh crept up on the world almost stealthily.
"It just kind of crept up on me when I wasn't looking," he said.
Valentine's Day is tomorrow, and if it crept up on you, you're not alone.
I was passionately engaged in these activities when the disease crept up on me.
But sadness crept up on me now and again, especially as I got older.
The Czech's frustration was mounting as the temperature crept up on Court Philippe Chatrier.
"Mental illness crept up on me when I least expected it," Padukone said last week.
She was not looking for love when Amanda Knox says it crept up on her again.
Italian government bond yields crept up on Friday, reflecting caution among investors before a Fitch ratings review.
When Paul crept up on Nicola right when her cake caved in on itself in spectacular fashion.
My PTSD crept up on me, resulting from experiences at a previous job that I can't discuss in detail.
And while I've managed to keep most of it off in the last five years, some weight has crept up on me.
These fraught questions crept up on me watching "Gentefied," because I was so engrossed in the characters' day-to-day high jinks.
It's crept up on us slowly, so quietly that you may not have noticed, but nuclear energy has become safer and more reliable.
VR has crept up on us faster than even we in the tech industry expected, and it's on the cusp of consumer readiness.
It helped me deal with the severe and crippling anxiety that had crept up on me trying to manage my ex-boyfriend's depression.
The lens craze has "crept up" on the makeup community, according to Kwok, since lens sponsorships can appear more subtle than a fashion advertisement.
"I would show you my backyard," said Litokne Kabua, 16, who said the ocean has crept up on his family's property in recent years.
The Carr Fire blazed a fiery path along Highway 299, lighting up mile after mile of dry brush as it crept up on residential areas.
For some reason, though, you just haven't done it, and it's crept up on you to the point where prices are now through the roof.
When Steve was attempting to lure Dart the Demodog into a fight, he was surprised when additional Demodogs crept up on either side of him.
The North Korean cyberthreat "crept up on us," said Robert Hannigan, the former director of Britain's Government Communications Headquarters, which handles electronic surveillance and cybersecurity.
The blaze had cut a fiery path along Highway 299, lighting up mile after mile of dry brush as it crept up on residential areas.
That means since Instagram launched the service in August, it's crept up on the 345.46 million daily users that Snapchat said it had earlier this year.
As one portal opened, I crept up on it, peering into an alternate dimension that extended far beyond what had previously just been an ordinary wall.
With spring in full swing and the April holiday just around the corner, you might find that egg-decorating time has quickly crept up on you.
Nadler doesn't drink anymore; she survived what she describes as a pretty serious drinking problem that crept up on her after spending years on the road.
Opioid abuse has crept up on the US over the past 20 years, killing more than 33,000 people in 2015 alone (compared to 4,030 in 1999).
As her drinking crept up on her in the late 1960s and 70s, she recounts, she was in denial because her preference was for wine, not liquor.
Parker spent early October doing press for her new HBO show, Divorce, and, of course, a few Sex and the City questions crept up on the interview circuit.
"It sort of crept up on me," Ms. Walker said, explaining how their commitment for each other grew over time, cemented in small gestures and their easy compatibility.
"It crept up on us quite suddenly," said Tui Ah Loo, chief executive of PARS, a charitable organization that supports both deportees with criminal histories and domestic prisoners.
It's a good one — the theme crept up on me, at least, and I was duly impressed with how slickly the theme answers wove themselves into the grid.
But if this story has crept up on you and left you confused as to what U.S. policy should be, let me try to untangle it for you.
It looks as though the photographer has crept up on her unaware, but according to an illuminating new biography of Eva by Artemis Leontis, the image was carefully posed.
Whether that dread crept up on Republicans at that moment, or at any point during Trump's meandering, grisly, hour-long acceptance speech, it will catch up with them eventually.
I never really faced that horrific accident, and through that and everything else, my emotions just crept up on me and drove me to the point of self-medicating with alcohol.
Even John Cena has the whiff of a ghost about him, the way he crept up on us and we didn't really notice what we'd witnessed until he was almost gone.
Flames have ravaged Southern California the past few days ... and when they crept up on Pepperdine's Malibu campus Friday ... students were forced to flee to the school's gym before they ultimately evacuated.
"I never really faced that horrific accident, and through that and everything else, my emotions just crept up on me and drove me to the point of self-medicating with alcohol," she said.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechCuriosity crept up on Namib Dune, a large dune within the Bagnold Dunes on Mars, for a science pit stop on its way to the foothills of Mount Sharp.
In typical cat-like fashion, the comedy has crept up on movie-goers, so you might be wondering whether or not to spend 89 minutes of your weekend watching a CGI talking feline.
The 15 best last-minute Valentine's Day gifts: If Valentine's Day has crept up on you this year, don't resort to just buying whatever box of chocolates you happen upon at the grocery store.
Sometimes those are every four years and sometimes they creep up on you, and this one crept up on me because I had two years remaining here at Everton that I planned on seeing out.
So when we went to get our marriage license the other day, the act of that was so powerful in a way that crept up on the both of us, and it just grounded that moment.
Social media platform Snapchat may have crept up on you but with 100 million daily users and 8 billion video views per day, the pressure is now on grown-ups and companies to start using it.
"I was just so disappointed in myself… The disease just crept up on me and said, 'Just do it one last time, you'll be OK.' "As soon I used, I said, 'Why did I do that?
" Writing a memoir about her parents' final years was an idea that "crept up" on Chast, she said, "as my relationship with them became more and more a part of my present, rather than of my past.
One reason it seems to have crept up on the city is that it's a large, well-capitalized, big-time restaurant of the kind that only established groups seem able to get off the ground these days.
Summer bonuses boosted real wages in June, but since then real wages have been weakening, as consumer prices have crept up on the back of rising prices of gasoline and fresh vegetables, which offset gains in nominal pay.
But the habit crept up on her until she was vaping every half-hour — in her car, while studying and during class, where she and a friend would compete to find the funniest ways to do it without anyone noticing.
As for the metaphorical spring, the so-called Arab Spring, according to many of the activists Ehrenreich encounters, that movement is blocked off by less visible systems like debt and class stratification that have crept up on the West Bank over the last decade.
The energy crisis has crept up on Australia, despite its rich endowment of coal and gas, as states have promoted rooftop solar and wind power in the absence of stable carbon policy at a federal level, and coal- and gas-fired plants have shut.
The energy crisis has crept up on Australia, despite its rich endowment of coal and gas, as individual states have promoted rooftop solar and wind power in the absence of stable carbon policy at a federal level, and coal- and gas-fired plants have shut.
LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Euro zone bond yields crept up on Thursday but held below this week's highs, as a degree of calm returned to a market that has been gripped in the past week by concern that central banks are running out of ammunition to bolster economic growth.
And, while there is ample reason to be dubious about the environmentalism that has crept up on the men's wear shows here, taken in aggregate it appears as though sustainability as a key element of modern design may be more than just another example of fashion attempting to be on trend.
While Cooper caught five of those passes, he did not score, and that same issue crept up on the next drive as Carr led the team to Tennessee's 241-yard line but then had three consecutive passes go in an out of Cooper's hands, making the Raiders resort to a 262-yard field goal by Giorgio Tavecchio after a 219-yard drive.
There was practically something for everyone: HBO maintained its perennial lead as the most-nominated network (despite new players like Hulu yapping at its heels), Netflix crept up on its shoulder and NBC proved broadcasters can still play in this game, thanks largely to "This is Us" -- the first best drama candidate on a major network since 2011 -- and "Saturday Night Live," which rode Donald Trump's coattails into the cultural zeitgeist.
Anita asked if she could search among the dead in battle. She was allowed to search, but did not find him. This gave hope to Anita, who, after a while, crept up on a camp horse, mounted it, and escaped at a gallop. The soldiers chased her.
While being distracted by Hardin, Jim Taylor crept up on Helm from behind and attempted to shoot him, but his revolver misfired. As the startled Helm turned, Taylor managed to get off a shot, striking Helm in the chest. Helm rushed Taylor, but Hardin shattered Helm's arm with a shotgun blast. Helm then attempted to flee into the blacksmith shop.
Despite the recent violence and an ongoing crime wave overtaking South Queens, Byrne was assigned to the post alone. As Byrne sat in his car another car pulled up beside him. Two men exited, and one of them knocked on the passenger side window of Byrne's cruiser while a second man crept up on the driver's side and shot Byrne in the head five times with a .38 caliber pistol.
Helm, Jack; article; Handbook of Texas online; published by the Texas State Historical Association; accessed September 2015. Helm and Hardin had been adversaries in the ongoing Sutton–Taylor feud for several years at this point. While being distracted by Hardin, Jim Taylor crept up on Helm from behind and attempted to shoot him, but his revolver misfired. As the startled Helm turned, Taylor managed to get off a shot, striking Helm in the chest.
The eventual struggles of being an owner/driver had slowly crept up on Bodine, and he found himself struggling with the responsibilities of fielding a competitive team. He signed up Ralphs Supermarkets to sponsor his car for 2000, and sold half the team to businessman Richard Hilton. The latter deal fell through, but while he was still able to keep Ralphs as a sponsor, the failed buy-out put the team behind in its preparation.
Siegmuller felt he needed to defend the ranch, fetched a rifle from the kitchen, silently crept up on Williams, and shot him dead in the head. Coachie Siegmuller pleaded guilty to the murder and was sentenced to death. The area's Paiute Reservation, the Las Vegas Indian Colony, threatened to go to war over the death penalty, and to keep the peace Siegmuller was instead sentenced to three years in the Carson City Prison. The Lattimers buried Wild Bill Williams behind the ranch.
178 A meeting encounter ensued and casualties were high among the Ethiopians and the Italians. After several hours, both sides withdrew and both claimed victory. While better equipped in all ways, the Italians were never able to get the upper hand. The small two-man, turretless L3/35 tankettes sent against the Ethiopians quickly bogged down in the rough terrain and were put out of action by Ethiopians who crept up on them and fired through the weapon slits in the armor.
Critics do not regard the strip highly, but it provided the vehicle for a fruitful situation: in the July 26 episode, a mouse threw a brick at the family cat—called "Kat"—which hit the cat on the head. The antics of this mouse and "Kat" continued to appear in the bottom portion of The Dingbat Family. Herriman said he did this "to fill up the waste space". About a month after its first appearance, the "Kat" crept up on the sleeping mouse and kissed it loudly.
De Villebois-Mareuil and the French were left to attempt to make a gallant but futile last stand. The Kimberley Mounted Corps crept up on the right and the rest of the Yeomen dismounted and did the same on the left. Both sides were close and the British artillery had to be careful when firing in order not to hit their own men. Some of the French tried to escape by mounting horses but were all taken down easily in a hail of rifle fire.
One night, as they slept together in a forest, a colony of tiny blonde hair creatures crept up on Rayman and fused themselves into his head. Rayman's female companion, frightened by this strange turn of events, attempted to cut Rayman's hair with a pair of scissors. The terrified hairs pulled at Rayman's head, forcing him to flee, and he fell over the edge of a cliff, apparently to his doom; however, he was saved by his new hair, which gave him the ability to fly like a helicopter.
On April 27, the Spanish under Santiago, who were still shadowing Raleigh's expedition, decided to surprise the English when their rear echelon became separated after getting fresh water. Having sent the four canoes they crept up on the English but surprise was lost when they became trapped in a narrow channel in a bend in the river. The English, although surprised, quickly took advantage and Gifford with his boats launched an attack on the Spanish, who overpowered them. The Spanish had a number of casualties compared to the English, who were without loss, and the remainder fled into the woods.
Upon the album's release, critical response to "Photograph" was generally positive. In his track-by-track review of x for Billboard magazine, Jason Lipshutz suggested that the line "Loving can hurt sometimes/But it's the only thing that I know" in "Photograph" was the "lynchpin line of the whole album". Sarah Rodman of The Boston Globe had the same sentiment; she called the song "haunting" and felt it "[crept] up on you with [its] tunefulness". Jamieson Cox of Time described Sheeran's use of "detail and powerful imagery" in the lyrics as "smart"; Cox opined that it "[brought the song] to life".
On January 29, 1938, it was announced that Zakovsky had been transferred to Moscow as First Deputy head of the NKVD, second in command to the infamous Nikolai Yezhov. Among his first tasks was to dispose of the head of the NKVD foreign department, Abram Slutsky. Rather than have him arrested, which might have provoked foreign agents to defect, Zakovsky crept up on him while he was talking to fellow officer Mikhail Frinovsky and stupefied him with chloroform, allowing another officer to inject him with poison. Zakovsky also took part in interrogating the former head of the NKVD, Genrikh Yagoda, to get him to confess under torture to being a terrorist, but on April 19, 1938, he was himself arrested and accused of being part of the 'Yagoda conspiracy,' of being a spy, and of organising a Latvian nationalist clique within the NKVD.

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