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

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

The slithery fish began to evolve into proficient hunters, and the new fossils hint that today’s bloodsucking species evolved from flesh-eating ancestors.

From National Geographic • Oct. 31, 2023

And when I came up to the cage to see these ugly bloodsucking creatures, I had to look right into this little kid’s face that had a smirk on it.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel