creep across (something)

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creep across (something)

To move slowly, and often stealthily, across a particular area or surface. The robber crept across the lawn and then opened a window to get into the house. When I saw the bee creeping across the windowsill, I bolted out of the room. The sunlight crept across my face and woke me up.
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creep across something

 
1. Lit. to move across something slowly and carefully; to sneak across something. The soldiers crept slowly across the rope bridge. The cat crept across the floor, stalking the mouse.
2. Fig. [for light, fog, etc.] to move slowly across a place or an area. A heavy fog crept across the coastal areas. The spotlight crept across the stage from one side to the other, as if looking for the performer.
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Eerie and otherworldly, Amelinda BA[c]rubA[c]'s Here There Are Monsters creeps across the page and into the woods where Skye's younger sister has gone missing, painting a haunting picture of the sisters' relationship, but also of relationships between human beings and their own desires.
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When you have an illumination, a moment of recognition, it's clearly seen on your face as a smile creeps across it and you have that look that says 'I know the answer but I am not telling you'.
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Jim Fanson, a project manager at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, said: "It's akin to measuring a flea as it creeps across the headlight of an automobile at night."
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As light creeps across the sky, I can make out birds on the far shore.
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