bloodsucking
Example Sentences
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I asked whether Dafoe thought a movie about a bloodsucking, diseased creature and the horror he unleashes on a 19th Century German town was the perfect antidote to a day of family festivities.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2024
“Because somehow a bloodsucking vampire is more permissible than a dress,” she quips.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024
Ticks are small, eight-legged bloodsucking parasites — arachnids, not insects — that feed on animals and sometimes people.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
Scientists worry these wetlands are incubating disease-transmitting mosquitoes and other bloodsucking insects, populations of which could explode next spring, Yuryshynets says.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 3, 2024
They glided down onto us like tiny, bloodsucking men in parachutes.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
