Bloodsucking Sentence Examples
These insects are bloodsucking, which means they can bite and feed on you and your family during sleep.
The three vamps were spread out around the foyer and trailed her like bloodsucking puppies as she moved down the hallway.
Her lightheadedness was gone and she was grateful his bloodsucking was pain free.
The recent discovery of a bloodsucking maggot, which is found in native huts throughout the greater part of tropical and subtropical Africa, and attacks the inmates when asleep, is of great interest.
In many bloodsucking flies, for example, the galea is absent, while the lacinia becomes a strong knife-like piercer and the palp is well developed.
The proboscis of tsetse-flies is without the paired piercing stilets (mandibles and maxillae) possessed by other bloodsucking Diptera, such as the female horse-flies and mosquitoes.
In parasitic bloodsucking forms the mandibles often have the shape of piercing stylets, and are enclosed in a tubular proboscis formed by the union of the upper lip (labrum) with the lower lip (hypostome or paragnatha).
A species of human botfly found in Central and South America attaches its eggs to a bloodsucking mosquito that it captures and then releases.
The patient was taken to the emergency room, where doctors identified the problem as a bloodsucking leech.
Actor Sam Trammell portrays shape-shifting bartender Sam Merlotte on HBO's True Blood, bloodsucking prime time drama based on Charlaine Harris' The Southern Vampire Mysteries.
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