leech

And I wanted to leech off of that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

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

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 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

Dr Davranoglou broke his arm in two places, one member contracted malaria, and another had a leech attached to his eye for a day and a half before it was finally removed at a hospital.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2023

Long as they’ve got a couple o’ hundred humans stuck there with ’em, so they can leech all the happiness out of ’em, they don’ give a damn who’s guilty an’ who’s not.”

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

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

Then Emma put twenty leeches on Fanny, which they hoped would suck the disease out with the blood.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

But multiple pharmacy owners told The Oregonian/OregonLive that an even larger challenge is the big share of profits leeched off by the pharmacy benefit managers.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

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

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

It was like seeing all the color leeched out of the world bit by bit.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

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