leechlike

Example Sentences

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We no longer must put up with the leechlike telephone salesmen and solicitors.

From Time Magazine Archive

I discovered that to achieve perfect personal silence all I had to do was to attach myself leechlike to sound.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

It is related that the first effort of procreation was not successful, the outcome being a leechlike abortion and an island of foam, the former of which was sent adrift in a boat of reeds.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)

The newcomer for an hour hung to the truck leechlike, without winning further recognition.

From The Wrong Twin by Wilson, Harry Leon

Do you suppose I could have been the same woman had such names as Amelia or Bella or Cinderella been clinging leechlike to my consciousness through all the years of my training?

From An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Housman, Laurence