Shortly after this the temperature dropped suddenly some 8 degrees, and then, during the next 12,000 feet, crept slowly down by small stages.

Her temperature, which had fallen, had now crept back up over one hundred degrees.

Chapter 21 Summer rose in full fury in mid-July, the temperature creeping past the century mark, then finally it began to cool.

As temperatures creep into the 90s and beyond, dehydration and heat exhaustion while exercising become a very real-and potentially dangerous-threat.

Even in its equatorial belt, the region that had given birth to the planet's only sentient species, temperatures only occasionally crept over the freezing mark.

Early morels begin sprouting when the average daily temperature (high + low, divided by two) creeps above about 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

She stood poised with tongs while the temperature crept to a hundred degrees.

The compartment, the whole interior had gotten unpleasantly warm, and still the temperature crept upward.

Throughout the region, temperatures started the day in the mid-teens and often crept no higher than the mid-20's.

Now, as oil production continues its steady decline, and the temperature creeps higher, it is far from clear what the next big boom might be, or what Alaska might become without one.