Our landlord, the bloodsucker, just raised our rent again.
the union accused the company executives of being bloodsuckers, since they had given themselves raises at a time when the rank and file were forced to take cuts in their benefits
Recent Examples on the WebBill Skarsgård plays the titular bloodsucker, Lily-Rose Depp portrays the movie’s heroine Ellen Hutter, and Willem Dafoe is the vampire-hunter Professor Albin Eberhart Von Franz.—Ew Staff, EW.com, 5 Jan. 2024 Whatever their other abilities, leeches have proved to be gifted bloodsuckers and offer a noninvasive and precise way to reestablish blood flow in patients recovering from reconstructive and aesthetic operations.—Zoey Poll, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024 Kissing bugs in Arizona:Everything to know about these nocturnal bloodsuckers
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In April, expect to encounter a bustling ecosystem of creatures, including crickets, beetles and curious spiders spinning intricate webs to catch unsuspecting prey.—The Arizona Republic, 14 Feb. 2024 But the universal appeal of bloodsuckers taps into our disastrous conditioning regarding what love is supposed to look like, an eternal status whose merits reside in a fictional realm of indestructibility.—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 14 Feb. 2024 The suspenseful trailer shows the captors trying to figure out the best way to kill the young bloodsucker.—Jaden Thompson, Variety, 11 Jan. 2024 But what could have been the start of a conversation about appropriation, appreciation and Latin identity gets smoothed over into a more generic storyline about industry bloodsuckers taking advantage of new artists.—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2023 Richter Belmont, a descendant of the legendary vampire-hunter Trevor from the first series, must face off against supernatural bloodsuckers and an even more vile threat: late-18th-century French aristocrats.—James Grebey, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2023 The bloodsuckers pose a serious health threat in Shasta County, where record levels of West Nile virus are being detected.—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
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