How to Use bloodsucker in a Sentence

bloodsucker

noun

• Our landlord, the bloodsucker, just raised our rent again.
• The bloodsuckers perched on the tent screen, waiting for my dog Cora and me to emerge.
  — Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 15 July 2017
• And some of these bloodsuckers can be more than just a nuisance.
  — Adlai Coleman, Miami Herald, 3 July 2024
• In fact, bloodsuckers are vital to the health of our planet.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 2 Dec. 2019
• In a world overrun by bloodsuckers, there's a new vampire hunter on the loose.
  — Esquire, 1 Sep. 2016
• Landscape Your Yard The bitty bloodsuckers are drawn to places that are damp, dark and cool.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 2 June 2023
• The half-inch-long bloodsuckers are up to five times bigger than a typical cat flea.
  — Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times, 20 Aug. 2018
• The suspenseful trailer shows the captors trying to figure out the best way to kill the young bloodsucker.
  — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 11 Jan. 2024
• The team then dabbed a little sweat on the outside of the fabric, which immediately drew in the bloodsuckers.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 20 Aug. 2019
• Fleas These bloodsuckers are out in force during the summer, so check your pets and yourself often.
  — Good Housekeeping, 6 Aug. 2017
• Science Over the last few years, a team of researchers in Alaska has been testing ticks found around the state to see what kind of threat the tiny bloodsuckers pose to humans, pets and wildlife.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023
• The scientists hope to follow up and figure out how the ancient tick fits into the family tree of the bloodsuckers.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2017
• To protect themselves from armies of bloodsuckers, researchers don mesh head nets, use bug dope with 40 percent Deet, and cover up with long sleeves and pants.
  — Laurel Andrews, Alaska Dispatch News, 28 July 2013
• Plenty of the bloodsuckers live in urban parks and neighborhoods.
  — USA TODAY, 21 July 2019
• Weir, though, is the real prize here, a pint-sized marvel who is able to switch in a millisecond from sweet and innocent child to a rabid bloodsucker.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2024
• Daphnia pulex's common name comes from the fact that the translucent creature often appears deep red, like a bloodsucker.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 4 Feb. 2011
• These are some hot, elegant gay bloodsuckers who speak French and flash brilliant smiles but aren’t afraid to kill to survive — kinda like Fire Island with fangs.
  — Erik Piepenburg, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024
• These bloodsuckers need only a teaspoon of water to reproduce and, unlike the Culex, have an affinity for biting at all hours of the day.
  — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2024
• Through their bites, these bloodsuckers pick up the bacteria that cause Lyme disease from white-footed mice and then spread those microbes to people.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 11 July 2017
• Eddie Murphy plays the titular bloodsucker in this comedic vamp around ’90s Brooklyn.
  — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2020
• The breakout show furthered the story of a bloodsucker named Angel (David Boreanaz) whom the Romany cursed with a soul as punishment for a century of mass murder.
  — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 21 June 2019
• As a precaution, exterminators sprayed every floor of City Hall to get rid of the little bloodsuckers.
  — USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2019
• Those methods have failed to make a tick detach and could also cause the tiny bloodsucker to regurgitate into the bite, causing other issues.
  — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 June 2021
• The bloodsuckers pose a serious health threat in Shasta County, where record levels of West Nile virus are being detected.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• Yet even as mortal heroines embraced their bloodsucker paramours, storytellers held them at arm’s length.
  — Time, 11 Oct. 2022
• Jacob Anderson stars as Louis, an immortal bloodsucker with a long life story to tell.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2022
• For a bloodsucker, learning and remembering information about its hosts will help keep it alive, the authors write.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2015
• The bloodsuckers of reality may be less horrific, or not.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2019
• The unifying figure is Dollar, who plays a vampire queen named Sophie in a cabal of bickering bloodsuckers.
  — Noel Murray, latimes.com, 5 July 2018
• When the tick attaches to a human, that infection-causing bacterium, virus, or parasite can be passed along as the little bloodsucker engorges its body with your blood.
  — Karen Pallarito, Health.com, 25 June 2020

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024