Example Sentences

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Leeches solve the vitamin problem by playing host to bacteria in their stomachs that create B vitamins.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2019

Leeches would cling to her legs when she worked in the fields.

From Washington Times • Nov. 10, 2018

Q. What is slightly more appetizing than Leeches and Cream?

From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2016

Leeches are slug-like worms that don’t usually live inside of people, but we decided to include them in honor of Mr. Curly.

From Salon • Oct. 14, 2014

From East Egg, then, came the Chester Beckers and the Leeches and a man named Bunsen whom I knew at Yale and Doctor Webster Civet who was drowned last summer up in Maine.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald