Similar words: creepy, crawl, scrawl, crawling, scrawled, creep, creeper, creeps. Meaning: n. an animal that creeps or crawls (such as worms or spiders or insects). adj. causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin.
1) The 19-year-old beautician froze when the creepy-crawly suddenly appeared before her eyes - and she lost control of her Ford Fiesta.
2) Guillermo del Toro, who previously directed a creepy-crawly little movie called Cronos, can accomodate you with Mimic.
3) You'd have known so well that when you turn over a stone all kinds of creepy-crawlies come clambering out.
4) Sylvia had started to hallucinate, seeing creepy-crawlies on her bed, and the houseman had to come and sort her out.
5) Some kind of Gerald Durrell character, is he, going round the world collecting creepy-crawlies?
6) Since when did metal creepy-crawlies get kitted out with stereo systems?
7) There were three creepy-crawly people hiding in the plate rack. Two of them got away; but the littlest one he caught.
8) Sufferers complain of intensely creepy-crawly skin and odd fibrous strands which protrude from open wounds.
9) This deep sea creepy-crawly gave oil workers a fright, after the unexpected visitor hitched a ride on a submarine sent from a rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
10) There are creepy-crawly sensations, like insects crawling beneath their skin. Fatigue, difficulty concentrating, memory loss,[http://sentencedict.com/creepy-crawly.html] and visual disturbances have also been reported.
11) Restless legs syndrome is a condition that ranges from a creepy-crawly sensation that runs up and down your legs to quivers, jerks, pins and needles, numbness, pain, or a burning sensation.
12) Somehow this early fascination with life's prodigality, with wet, slimy or creepy-crawly things, becomes systematised and methodical.