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

And don’t be surprised if they decide to bring back blood-letting and leeches.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 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

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

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2024

I tickled him for a few minutes, and after that he seemed to forget about the leeches, rolling around on the ground right over them.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer