Meaning of creeping-in | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

Examples

“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.”

“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; […]”

“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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