"As the water creeps in, so does the humanity."

The muddy water was already creeping away from her.

Nowhere was there any sign of where the water could have crept in.

For years Droy Wood had been eroded, the water creeping in, until it was virtually floating.

As they ate, the water crept up and up.

They piled their possessions up on the platform, and the water crept over the floor.

And the water crept over the floor, a thin film of it.

To his left, water was creeping in through a crack in a flood wall meant to hold back the Kansas.

The farther they went she noticed that water was slowly creeping toward the road like a dirty sponge.

The open water crept closer to the ships, but remained tantalizingly out of reach.