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
They glided down onto us like tiny, bloodsucking men in parachutes.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
