leech

And I wanted to leech off of that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

Rory turns into sandworm fodder the second he admits his slimy MO, suggesting that the smarmy leech was beyond redemption.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2024

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

Tansy tried to put Little Britches down, but she clung like a leech.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

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 am bled sufficiently. Nan, you may remove the leeches."

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

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

“We have companies in the private sector who have leeched onto the broken edges of the American education and student loan system,” said Cody Hounanian, executive director of the Student Debt Crisis Center.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2023

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

This, however, was something else entirely, and Ophie shivered as the cold stone leeched the warmth from her toes through the thin material of her house shoes.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

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

Her gift, which they had never even known worked in reverse, was leeching the life out of all the plants she touched.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor