leech

And I wanted to leech off of that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

This fear makes evolutionary sense: Parasites aren't technically predators, but they can cause serious harm as they leech off of their hosts.

From Salon ● May 18, 2025

Finally, the leech leaps, flying through the air with a kind of wild abandon.

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

The first principle of wrestling is to hang on to your opponent come what may, so I clung to Nick's breeches like a leech, though he kicked madly and pummeled my back with his fists.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

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

I wouldn’t have been surprised if, to cure fever, Dr. Phil had written out a prescription for leeches.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

The black water had leeched all warmth out of me, and my teeth chattered, but that may also have been because I was petrified out of my mind.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

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

A trematode has a very specific life cycle, leeching onto three hosts that include a freshwater snail, a fish and then a bird or human who ate the infected fish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2025

I don’t know whether or not I will do this, but driving along I have planned it in detail even to the kind of pump, the leeching bins, the tests to determine disappearance of salinity.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck