Example Sentences

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In the meantime, Millie told the inquiry "confusion, frustration and anxiety... was leeching into my home".

From BBC • Jul. 9, 2025

Dinner came in a recyclable brown container, which I suspected was leeching cardboard particles into my food.

From The Verge • Apr. 15, 2015

Her gift, which they had never even known worked in reverse, was leeching the life out of all the plants she touched.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor