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How to use leeches in a sentence

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The reason you have such a low lamprey count is the leeches crowded them out.
For many years only animals such as worms, leeches and midge larvae could survive.
Blood was usually taken by opening a vein with a lancet, although bloodsucking leeches were regularly used.
Young men who are often described as layabouts, louts, thugs, animals and leeches were well represented among them.
It's a bit of a shame, especially as the leeches used for therapy sessions aren't your average leeches.
In the mid-1970s leeches revolutionized the live-bait business in nearby Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The rhynchobdellids are strictly aquatic leeches that have small, porelike mouths in the oral sucker.
The study also shows that wild European medicinal leeches are at least three distinct species, not one.
For over 2000 years, leeches were needlessly applied for many ailments as an adjunct to blood letting.
Most of the leeches found in our lakes are parasites feeding on the body fluids of fish.
Tiger balm is great because it is easy to carry in your pocket, it's not messy and the leeches hate it.
Like people, leeches do not always draw blood first time, and some have to be coaxed into biting.
The key to identification of leeches covers several features, including the number and placement of the eyes.
Ever since doctors were using leeches, policy makers have been leveraging the threat of a medical crisis as a tool to change our minds.
But some of these operations might have failed if leeches had not been reintroduced into the operating room.
It does the same thing, but instead leeches off of political opinions and events.
By the time we finally got to the rock, there were 22 leeches resident in my boots, but none had penetrated the galoshes.
It was like leeches they used back when, to draw off bad blood but in this case they drew off fat.
If you thought the use of leeches in medicine was a thing of the past then think again.
They are members of the phylum Annelida, the group that includes segmented worms such as leeches, tube worms, and the familiar earthworm.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The Desmoscolecida move by looping their bodies like geometrid caterpillars or leeches, as well as by creeping on their setae.
Sometimes it may be necessary to scarify the gums, or to apply leeches to them.
In all sails whose opposite leeches are of the same length, it is terminated above by the earing, and below by the clue.
Fortunately their convent numbered among its inmates one of the best leeches in all West Flanders.
Or in ivory chopsticks, oolong tea, imitation jade, litchi nuts and preserved leeches!
About him were golden limes, ginger in syrup, litchi nuts, pickled leeches.
Also, hollow or curved leeches of sails, in contradistinction to straight.
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