How to Use teem in a Sentence

teem

verb
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  • Watch for dolphins from the side of the boat: the waters here teem with them.
    — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 June 2020
  • Soon enough, the space’s ground floor teemed with members of the fashion set.
    — Vogue, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The park is also teeming with bears, moose, elk, and plenty of birds.
    — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The deep waters here teem with out-of-this-world wildlife and coral formations.
    — Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2022
  • On Earth, the oceans teem with life, but is the same scenario possible on these frosty moons?
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 July 2022
  • My mind was teeming with the details from both stories, and I was burnt out.
    — Author: Sophia Rosenbaum, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2020
  • The royal court is teeming with snakes, the zombies are coming, and the crown prince has a nation to save.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Mar. 2020
  • The roster for this year’s VMAs is teeming with megastars who’ve each had a killer year.
    — Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Music has charms that teem our tongues, course through our pens, and stream from our keyboards.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Every year on that June day, the streets teem with literary life.
    — Kevin Dettmar, The New Yorker, 16 June 2020
  • This teeming world even has its own name: the plastisphere.
    — WIRED, 27 Mar. 2023
  • But the heat is also a problem for the tiny creatures that teem across Antarctica.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Its shores may have not been much to look at, but life teemed underwater.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Across two days teeming with house and techno, Billboard Dance brings you the best of Secret Project.
    — Valerie Lee, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Music has charms that teem our tongues, course through our pens and luminesce up on our screens.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Nearly 4,500 cruise ship employees have returned to the Philippines, some from ships that teemed with the virus.
    — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Hummingbirds flit between the lush foliage, while rays, eels, and fishes teem through the reefs.
    — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Years ago, the train, bus, and commuter rail hub would teem with homeless people sleeping there overnight.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The stabbing happened in an area teeming with shoppers.
    — Mike Corder, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Nov. 2019
  • Snorkelers can explore the shallow reefs teeming with some of the healthiest corals on the planet.
    — Terry Ward, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Though the young vines are just barely peeking out, the place is teeming with life: The family keep pigs, goats, sheep, even a bull, and agave plants line the pathways.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 May 2020
  • The place is teeming, practically spilling over, with unique finds.
    — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Sep. 2023
  • True to his own Mardi Gras predilections, Dark Hallway lit out to roam the teeming halls in search of sustenance.
    — al, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Less than a week before, the place was teeming with the first wave of spring break arrivals and ticket booths were busy, even with one-day lift passes priced at $219.
    — Rachel Schallom, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2020
  • Here, recollection is a laser, a tool to be focused on a past teeming with harsh and essential lessons for the present.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
  • The room was teeming with oil and gas executives smoking cigars.
    — Michael Biesecker, Twin Cities, 23 Dec. 2019
  • However, once the ice begins to crack and the summer heat sets in, the Hudson Bay begins to teem with life as the beluga whales migrate to it.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 July 2022
  • The cousins also discuss the cicadas and their cyclical emergence, which reminds the audience of the life teeming under the earth.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
  • But then, what is art if not an attempt to tidy up the real world’s teeming luxuriance?
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Advertisement Its alluring loft draws hikers of all stripes from the teeming megalopolis in its backyard.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024

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