leech

And I wanted to leech off of that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

The decision pays off in the film’s third act, when Matthew is exonerated in the court of the public and receives the adoration he’s been trying to leech from Oliver.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2025

After Dr. Fahmy shared her first springing leech video with other people, most recognized the jump immediately.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

It works according to the leech principle and is less invasive than taking blood from the arm with a needle.

From Science Daily ● May 2, 2024

I reach my fingers in and grab a leech.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

Under a chaotic canopy woven with vines and studded with fearsome spiked stems, the group crossed streams, waded through mud and picked off dozens of leeches.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

We get a clear-eyed look at disgust, a nearly universal human response to the likes of maggots, cockroaches, ticks, leeches, slugs and lice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

Some hematophages are well-known: For example, vampire bats in the subfamily Desmodontinae helped inspire the legendary monsters that bear their name and no one can forget blood-sucking mosquitoes and leeches.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2024

They’re tipped into a chemical solution which leeches the gold out into the liquid.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2024

The leeches wriggled slowly between her fingers as she plucked them carefully from the lord's body, their pale bodies moist to the touch and distended with blood.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

He said: "We were absolutely blown away when we saw the contents in there, as we might have expected them to have leeched out."

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2024

A federal-provincial cleanup tackled Brittania Mine, which once leeched acid into creeks.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2022

Unable to knuckle through cramps that compelled me to learn Lamaze breathing and heavy bleeding that leeched the life force out of me, I opted for a hysterectomy.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2022

The waste might also be leeched into the soil, or into harder sediment, or, worst case, might have made its way into the groundwater.

From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2022

This, however, was something else entirely, and Ophie shivered as the cold stone leeched the warmth from her toes through the thin material of her house shoes.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

By claiming to believe in demons, the vice president is leeching onto another youth trend, and probably getting a hefty boost in social media algorithms for it.

From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2026

These folks were, in fact, the flimsy remnants of Cuomo’s actual base: high-status opportunists leeching off one of their own.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2025

In the meantime, Millie told the inquiry "confusion, frustration and anxiety... was leeching into my home".

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2025

The trick to their method: Instead of leeching with an excess of citric acid like conventional methods, they use a relatively small amount.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2024

Her gift, which they had never even known worked in reverse, was leeching the life out of all the plants she touched.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor