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

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

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

They hope that their new leech devices will soon be able to play a part in the health of children and anyone else who is afraid of needles.

From Science Daily ● May 2, 2024

After considerable silence and visible relief that we didn’t choose them to leech off, he said, “And how did she take the news?”

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

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

And don’t be surprised if they decide to bring back blood-letting and leeches.

From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026

At age 25, Birutė Galdikas, the Canadian anthropologist, was wading through swamps riddled with parasites and leeches trying to catch a glimpse of orangutans, or, as she describes them, “survivors of Eden.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

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

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2024

At the end of the day, I did forget about the leeches clinging to my toes, but I did not forget about my sister.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

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

“Everybody who is in his orbit, if they’ve had any integrity, it gets leeched away from them like some parasite.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2020

"Maybe you should get leeched too. There's leeches in the Neck as big as pigs."

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

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

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