How to Use leech in a Sentence

leech

1 of 2 noun

• Would the leech get warm from my blood?
  — Blair Braverman, Outside, 21 Jan. 2026
• The small-mouth bass go for the leeches, too.
  — Jeremy Rutherford, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2025
• The historic human-leech bond goes way back.
  — Blair Braverman, Outside, 21 Jan. 2026
• Soon every spot where a leech once clung was a red, oozing sore.
  — Claire Panosian Dunavan, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2017
• When people are nervous, leeches pick up on that.
  — Blair Braverman, Outside, 21 Jan. 2026
• Konibu showed me a scar on his tricep—a bullet wound that bulged and glistened like a leech.
  — Monte Reel, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2022
• This comment would make much more sense applied to, say, a leech swallowing a worm.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 21 Dec. 2022
• The leech therapist, whose name was Sandra, made a tsk-tsk sound over the phone.
  — Blair Braverman, Outside, 21 Jan. 2026
• Nymphs, wet flies, and leech patterns are always good bets, but so are streamer patterns.
  — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023
• Tied on a jig hook, a balanced leech or wet fly features a heavy bead positioned forward of the eye.
  — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023
• Bleeding usually stops two to three hours after the leech has finished.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2021
• The fact is that leeches are relished by everything from walleyes and bass to trout and all the panfish.
  — Byron W. Dalrymple, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
• The ancestors of leeches were unlikely to have sucked blood.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
• The ancestors of leeches were unlikely to have sucked blood.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
• But his offer to turn Louis into an eternal leech is sweetly sincere.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2022
• In an effort to save Cathy, doctors place leeches over her body in hopes of removing the bad blood.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 Feb. 2026
• Asingle alive leech was recovered from the urethra after ten days with the help of forceps.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2018
• Like a parasite, the goal seems to be to walk a fine line to leech off of business owners without completely killing the host.
  — Adam Summers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2025
• Surely, for the leeches, large groups of humans trekking through their habitat is akin to stumbling upon a potluck in a forest.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2023
• Still, the pattern’s original concept—a leech that’s been lucky enough to find a salmon egg to consume—seems plausible.
  — Field & Stream, 13 Oct. 2020
• But the leeches themselves were, to my surprise, almost beautiful.
  — Blair Braverman, Outside, 21 Jan. 2026
• Tatum and Bullock have spoken about filming the leech scene together before.
  — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
• General anesthesia might be necessary for the removal of the leech.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2016
• Dysmenorrhea might be treated by placing leeches on the abdomen to increase blood loss.
  — Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
• At worst, a leech on the already meager royalty payouts artists receive from streaming services.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
• The lightning-fast process leeches out flavor and compromises textures, and can produce bland, mushy results.
  — Emily Saladino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 25 June 2026
• This is the version where every frame has a squint, smudge and, occasionally, a leech taking advantage of the tab left open with room service.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 6 Apr. 2021
• Her book Saving Fish from Drowning, from drowning features a number of leeches.
  — James Folta, Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025
• One time after setting a net and while swimming back to the canoe Marcus screamed like a little girl claiming that a leech had swam into his rectum.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 4 May 2021
• The horror film takes the world of elite sports to disturbing new extremes, filled with brutal ambition, blood-sucking leeches, and hard-hitting serves.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 28 Oct. 2025

leech

2 of 2 verb

• His yearning is leeching out of the screen.
  — Thomas Page, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
• The reason, as the movie presents it, is that the culture around him has leeched his authority away.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 Aug. 2023
• There are just a couple of hours left in the day, and emotions are starting to leech into the proceedings.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2022
• But the days of the entire tri-county area leeching off downtown’s social services are over.
  — Chelsea Cantilli, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2025
• Like a parasite, the goal seems to be to walk a fine line to leech off of business owners without completely killing the host.
  — Adam Summers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2025
• Bamboo can last longer, doesn’t leech chemicals into your food, and can often be more durable than plastic utensils.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
• Even when the feedback is great, online comments can really leech the pleasure out of doing something.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 21 May 2025
• But telling viewers that babies leech off of their mother’s bones to grow their own will probably receive more engagement.
  — Morgan Sung, NBC News, 25 Jan. 2023
• This person controlled the deceased, poisoned her mind against her own children and leeched off her financially.
  — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
• Not only that, but plastic utensils often leech toxic chemicals onto your food.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
• Mold spores themselves are not the only opportunistic carpetbaggers looking to leech off the remnants of a storm.
  — Jack Denton, Curbed, 10 Sep. 2021
• These costumes, typically worn just once each year, also pile up in landfills and can leech plastics into waterways.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Oct. 2024
• Her relationship with Tanya had many layers, and wasn’t just about a wealthy woman emotionally leeching off of a poor one.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2025
• At what point does professionalizing our personal lives leech them of any spirit or spontaneity?
  — Madeleine Aggeler, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• Heather there in her glittering vintage dress while the raining confetti mixes with the snow around them, leeching into it, dying it colors.
  — Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
• Isolating rare earth minerals involves a huge amount of water and leeching with some of the world’s most toxic acids over hundreds of extraction stages.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 21 Apr. 2026
• Critics say the program has been too aggressive, leeching far too many dollars away from education, health care and other core services.
  — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2025
• Worse, Agatha didn’t hold back from leeching Alice’s powers, despite being able to do so later with Billy.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
• The ash didn’t leech phosphorus, which the ocean is often depleted of, but Ladd said the exact chemicals leeched from the ash will change by location.
  — Jenessa Duncombe, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2020
• According to him, Heard took advantage of his status and money to boost her career while allowing her friends and family to leech off of him.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 May 2022
• Certainly there is beauty and awe to fill anyone’s soul, but does a chill draft blow through there as well, leeching ice into the spirit and sending a frisson of tingles down one’s spine?
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2024
• Not to mention, the endless testing and optimizing that can leech away at time and resources that most startups and scaling businesses can’t afford to squander.
  — Vito Vishnepolsky, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
• For instance, important nutrients from the carcasses, feces, and food scraps deposited by mammals leech into the forest floor.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 29 Dec. 2021
• Nickel-free stainless steel is preferable, as small amounts of nickel can leech out of inferior materials in the long cook times associated with making stock.
  — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 6 Jan. 2021
• There’s nothing anyone can do but watch as Agatha leeches the life out of Alice, another undeserving victim of the Road.
  — Caroline Framke, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2024
• Quite a few people have criticized me for leeching off Disney’s intellectual property.
  — Damon Beres, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2024
• The pure-hearted chaos of the early seasons now threatens to be leeched by influencers and microcelebrities hunting for brand partnerships and appearances on a variety of spinoff dating shows.
  — Lillian Fishman, New Yorker, 27 June 2026
• While Lamont points with pride to the large surpluses achieved during his tenure, critics say these weren’t inessential funds but rather were leeched from core programs that have been dangerously undermined.
  — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 25 May 2025
• Despite mounting human-rights abuses and leeching democratic freedoms, Yunus has stayed silent, refusing to publicly condemn Hasina or speak out.
  — Charlie Campbell, TIME, 24 June 2024
• For instance, the water plants adjust water pH levels and add nonharmful chemicals that essentially coat pipes to prevent lead from leeching into water.
  — Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2025