creeping-in

See also: creeping in

English

Noun

creeping-in (plural creepings-in)

  1. Alternative form of creeping in.
    • 1942 January 11, “Stabilization of Prices”, in Miles City Daily Star, volume XXXI, number 198, Miles City, Mont., →OCLC, page 4, column 3:
      One of the first creepings-in of the tendency to boost prices came in the case of sugar. It happens, and perhaps it cannot be helped, that sugar is a commodity in universal demand.
    • 1950 February, Doreen Idle, “Part III: Conclusion at Garraford”, in The Last Knot, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, chapter 3, page 301:
      The dark cloud of a broken relationship hung long, obliterating pleasures of the senses, but at last it began to break up. Then, as though she had suffered from a tiresome headache which was at last passing away, she began to feel the small creepings-in of pleasure; of well-being in her environment; […]
    • 1988 July 31, Ronald Blythe, “The Everlasting Construction Site”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015:
      With his French cuisine, his library, his museum, his aviary filled with mockingbirds, his ice-house and his meticulously correct classic decor, he should have been able to look around and say, I have done it! Instead, rather than a finis, there was a petering-out of funds and energy and a creeping-in of decay.
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