What's the difference between crawling and crept?

Crawling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crawl

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 30%, 60% and 100% plasma, crawling-like movements progressively increased, motility rose (at 30%) and then fell slightly (at 100%) while adhesiveness did not change.
  • (2) You’d think such a spry, successful man would busy himself with other things besides crawling into a pile of stuffed animals to scare his daughter’s date.
  • (3) Protesters crawl out from the tents they have pitched on the cobblestones and huddle in the cold around makeshift fires, as volunteers distribute hot tea and soup.
  • (4) Alonso, after hitting the wall and being catapulted airborne, landed upside down in his McLaren before crawling out of his car.
  • (5) Based on a single 20-s recovery VO2, the swimmers' VO2 max was correlated with performance in a 400-yd (365.8-m) front crawl swim.
  • (6) A decision to wean a child may be made if the child can crawl, walk, or has a good set of erupted milk teeth, even if the child has not reached the traditional weaning age of 20-24 months.
  • (7) A host of activities are on offer, from barbecue or pizza parties to bar crawls, and guests are welcome to visit the community projects that Backpack sponsors, including vegetable gardens, knitting and football for kids.
  • (8) They were the same two men who greeted Abu Ali as he crawled through a hole in the border fence to freedom on the night of 25 May 2015, just over four months after he had entered Isis territory.
  • (9) Some were wearing nappies despite being of school age, and appeared to crawl upstairs using their hands rather than walking.
  • (10) Wanda Mintz said her nephew tried to crawl away but could not move because of his wounds.
  • (11) What made this so troubling he said, is that digital spiders could then crawl the web and find every picture in the public domain and match it with an identity.
  • (12) So all these things are going through your head as I'm on my belly crawling to get underneath this shutter.
  • (13) She stumbled to her door, but found she could not walk out; she had to crawl as the ground swayed beneath her.
  • (14) The Tower’s steps are covered in golden slime, and on its walls crawls a “rich greenlike moss” that inscribes letters and words on the masonry – before entering and authoring the bodies of the explorers themselves.
  • (15) The DOJ generally has to go crawling to Wall Street, tentatively striking deals that won't hurt financial reputations too badly and the bottom line hardly at all.
  • (16) I remember crawling out of it – because by that time I was too weak to walk, but I couldn’t bear to stay among the corpses any longer – and bumping into a neighbour who was as surprised to see me as I was her.
  • (17) Elevated concentrations of the soil fungi were significantly (P = 0.05) associated with the dirt floor, crawl-space type of basement.
  • (18) (Oh wow, note to self: trademark a version of American Football where players have to crawl or walk on their hands.)
  • (19) In the transition from quiescent state to crawling, the pattern recorded in nerves and connectives changes from short-duration bursts in many units to the 60-100 sec cycle of events recorded during tethered crawling in the semi-intact snail.
  • (20) These results, interpreted through Ayres' sensory integration theory and applied to current occupational therapy practice, support Farber's hypothesized importance of early crawling experience in the development of sensory and motor systems of the body and general motor skill development.

Crept


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Creep
  • (p. p.) of Creep
  • () imp. & p. p. of Creep.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
  • (2) The tunes weren't quite as easy and lush as they had been, and hints of dissonance crept in.
  • (3) This all crept up on me while I wasn't paying attention.
  • (4) When the ice-cold water crept up the hollow of my neck, when my boots and trousers became as heavy as lead, it wasn't so bad that it stopped me from keeping up with the others.
  • (5) A team of French paratroopers crept into the town by moonlight, advancing from the airport, they said.
  • (6) The team's response to the goal was to look for the pair with every attack but the closest they came was through Ravel Morrison's 20-yard free-kick in the 23rd minute, which would have crept under the crossbar had Karl Darlow not made a fine save.
  • (7) NHS England figures further reveal that the proportion of those patients not treated within 28 days of being turned away from operating tables has crept up to 5.6% – a four-year high.
  • (8) Coalition policy to accelerate rises to RPI plus 3% were twice modified by the chancellor George Osborne ahead of January rises as inflation crept up, but fares rose by over 6% annually in 2011 and 2012.
  • (9) I crept up to the security guard on one side of the runway and saw he was not someone I should try to rush past.
  • (10) Its opening party this year crept forward to the last week of May, coinciding with the International Music Summit, which rivals Miami's Winter Music Conference as the most important event in the calendar for the dance music industry.
  • (11) Prices of petrol and diesel both crept up around 1p a litre last month.
  • (12) Leicester could probably have been excused if a little weariness had crept in – nobody, Ranieri said, had slept a great amount over the past week – and for the first time this season it was the occasion, perhaps, rather than the result, that mattered.
  • (13) The prosecutor, Gerrie Nel, gradually zeroed in on the critical moment when the athlete crept into his bathroom with a 9mm pistol and shot four times.
  • (14) An early lead, a dominant start; Northern Ireland could not have wished for a better opening but the home side’s confidence and urgency belatedly surfaced as carelessness crept into the visiting performance.
  • (15) I was worried the weight of the sadness that crept into my whole being over the course of her decline and departure from this world would just keep expanding until it crushed me completely.
  • (16) He went for the ball, it’s football and these things happen.” The dismissal gave Tottenham plenty of time to search for a winner and while they monopolised the ball, Watford went close to stealing a goal by forcing a succession of late corners, including one from Ben Watson that almost crept over the line.
  • (17) Perhaps a little bit of complacency crept in from Barcelona after the interval but, to give City their due, they did at least remind themselves they were meant to be the home side.
  • (18) Concern has increased in recent years, as oil finds have crept closer to the disputed border.
  • (19) But since the end of the sectarian war in 2008, Baghdad has crept towards a cautious normality, albeit under a very heavy security presence at almost every junction.
  • (20) Volleys of bullets from the rebels' Kalashnikovs whizzed mostly towards army positions, but some flew down the boulevard and prompted those who had crept too close to throw themselves against walls and to the floor.

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