The needle of the speedometer crept steadily across the dial.

The needle crept steadily up to Mach.99 and hung there for several seconds.

He can't really explain what he's doing, but the efficiency is creeping steadily upward.

Traditionally, it starts this Friday - though the start of the shopping season seems to have crept steadily forward.

Also, interest rates have been steadily creeping higher, and that looks likely to continue.

The report said undergraduate grades at Harvard had been creeping steadily up for a generation.

The needle of the pointer crept steadily from zero to one hundred.

There was somebody crouching along that wall, creeping steadily in the direction of the workshop.

But then the dates of Gibson-action have been creeping steadily backward.

Behind us, already very near and creeping steadily nearer, was the mist of death.