Chalk it up to the urge to reinvent the genre and the slow creep of irony into the culture.

With a slow upward creep of wages, growth in inflation will also be slow.

The trail that he had left in hauling himself to the top was rapidly being smoothed out by the slow creep of the flowing sand.

They crawled across the face of Jupiter; the moons fairly fast, the shadows in a slow creep.

At a slow creep, Leviathan gently rolled onto the bridge.

If he had time for a slow creep.

It comes from the slow, steady creep of Soviet influence into every corner of his government.

Then he put the car in gear and started his slow creep back down the lane.

The data show corresponding trends between temperature and the slow, long-term creep of South Peak.

Another important feature is caused by slow creep.