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Sneak up   /snik əp/   Listen
Sneak up

verb
1.
Advance stealthily or unnoticed.  Synonym: creep up.






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"Sneak up" Quotes from Famous Books



... thinkin'. Nothin' that amounts to shucks. Gettin' dahk. We better git outside of our supper an' sneak up to the tunnel soon's it gits dusk enough to light ...
— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn

... feast. They were plainly visible by their glaring, fire-like eyes. I varied the monotony of the long night by walking around, sitting down, lying upon the ground, and occasionally falling asleep beside the sick ox. Then the wolves emboldened by the stillness, would sneak up close to us and break out in piercing howls, but they would instantly vanish when I got up and ...
— A Gold Hunter's Experience • Chalkley J. Hambleton

... the willows about us brought into my mind the fact that our masked acquaintances could easily sneak up and pot us if, as an afterthought, they decided to do a really workmanlike job. Doubt it? Wasn't the dead man stretched in the shadow convincing proof of their capacity for pure devilishness? Read ...
— Raw Gold - A Novel • Bertrand W. Sinclair



Words linked to "Sneak up" :   progress, go on, move on, pass on, advance, march on



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