Example Sentences

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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

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

In “Parasite,” Bong constructs a multilayered question over who the titular leeches are.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025

They’re tipped into a chemical solution which leeches the gold out into the liquid.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2024

She did not want to spend her life with leeches covering her legs, she did not want her back to bend out of shape, and yet she never wanted to leave this house.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata