Verb (used with object) : His relatives leeched him until his entire fortune was exhausted. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : She leeched on to him for dear life. From Dictionary.com.
There was an abomination fastened leechlike to the cow. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
I wriggled my leg harder, trying to shake off the leechlike grip. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
It sucked, leechlike, at Sidroc's boots, trying to pull them off his feet. From Wordnik.com. [Rulers of the Darkness]
Clinging leechlike to the rocking sideboard, he struggled to peer over the side. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
Amelia or Bella or Cinderella been clinging leechlike to my consciousness through all the years of my training?. From Wordnik.com. [An Englishwoman's Love-Letters] Reference
So I won't actually be gnawing my wrists open to rid the world of my leechlike presence once I finish this review. From Wordnik.com. [i was never faithful and i was never one to trust] Reference
The gold his father had received from the fifth King Mithridates in return for the cession of most of Phrygia to Pontus had long gone, yet the odium of that deed continued to cling leechlike to the son. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
Watching Court's smooth unhurrying movements, the splayed limbs leechlike on the rock face, he found himself reliving some of the climbs of his boyhood and making the ascent with them, mentally documenting each stage. From Wordnik.com. [She Closed Her Eyes] Reference
The main Martian life-forms-the "roving stones" browsing on the mineral deserts, the leechlike predators that hunted them in the desperate battle for existence, the yet fiercer parasites that preyed on them-showed only the dimmest flickers of intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Worlds of 2001]
Dust and soot had fastened leechlike upon the glistening stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Slan]
The newcomer for an hour hung to the truck leechlike, without winning further recognition. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Twin] Reference
If you have lazy, racialistic, leechlike and pea brain dickheads like those in Perkasa, Gertak and some NGOs, it will never never ever going to work. From Wordnik.com. [Lim Kit Siang] Reference
Following the humbling letter in last week's Harrow Times, many people may not have read my comments posted on the website, regarding the proposed 9/11 "protest" outside our Harrow Central Mosque by the self-styled extreme-right English Defence League and latterly the reactionary extreme-left Unite Against Fascism, who attach themselves leechlike to any. From Wordnik.com. Reference
“I seem to recall reading about some sort of leechlike inhabitants, but I can’t remember if they were dangerous or not.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Multiplying Menace] Reference
Zealous rememberer, leechlike gatherer. From Wordnik.com. [someday we'll look back at this and moan] Reference
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