leech

Example Sentences

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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

It may be that one of the problems holding up the identification of leech leaping for all these years was the absence of humans with cameras.

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

As I inched up the rope, my arms ached, my left sock squished with blood from a leech bite, and I was marinating in sweat.

From National Geographic • Jan. 23, 2024

All this history seems both plausible and creditable, good reading for doctors, but there is always that other leech, the worm.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas