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• While the environment is teeming with bacteria and fungi, most are not pathogenic.From the entry pathogenic
• The entire place teemed with harried executives who had no time to talk to one another.From the entry harried
• Jake had gone from the center of a teeming throng of people to the solitudinous emptiness of his lonely house.From the entry solitudinous
• The pampas is an ecological wonderland, teeming with life and natural beauty.2025, Joann Mendez, Pampas Paradise: Embracing the Natural Beauty of Argentina's Grasslands. From the entry pampas
• Now, it teems with life along verdant banks that stretch for 26 miles.2021 June 1, Keith Bradsher, “China’s Concrete Jungles Make Room for Green Space”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry Suzhou Creek
• The quay teemed chock-a-block with porters, officials, clumps of overcoated people under umbrellas.2012, Michèle Roberts, Ignorance, page 218. From the entry chock-a-block
• Yet her dance-and-music spectacle, ending with the phrase “You need to rebel against negativity,” teems with pedanticism.2008 April 7, Gia Kourlas, “E-Moting, E-Volving and Tipping Toward Tap”, in New York Times. From the entry pedanticism
• Stands of trees teeming with barking animals would be quiet as lichyards when he passed them again.2008, Jay Lake, Escapement, Tor Books, published 2009, →ISBN, page 157. From the entry lichyard
• The great hotel, with its look of sedate luxury, brooded massively there with people teeming about it.1985, Doris Lessing, The Good Terrorist, London: Jonathan Cape […], →ISBN, page 352. From the entry sedate
• FOR SALE—A tiny stream, hemlocky woods. 75 acres teeming with game.1968 October 9, “Classified Advertising”, in The Potter Enterprise, 94th year, number 27, Coudersport, Pa., page seven, column 2. From the entry hemlocky
• Foxholes teem with atheists—who, to be sure, frequently infringe the Third Commandment in their desperation.1962, Hoxie Neale Fairchild, Religious Trends in English Poetry: 1880-1920: Gods of a Changing Poetry, Columbia University Press, page 378. From the entry foxhole
• Teeming and siling , though much akin, were two very different operations.1916, Country Life, page 407. From the entry sile
• “The potato’s skin is teeming with glycoalkaloids,” she continued, “toxins so indestructible, they can easily survive both cooking and frying.”2022, Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry, Penguin (2023), page 316. From the entry glycoalkaloid
• Hormones are the bicycle couriers of the body, delivering chemical messages all around the teeming metropolis that is you.2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 165. From the entry hormone
• So easy for one young son to be swallowed up in a world teeming with Erlkings, real and imagined.2010, Rachel Billington, The Missing Boy, Hachette, →ISBN. From the entry erlking
• Manred was composed of thousands of teeming atoms in each of which God was present, and each was part of God.2004, Lewis Spence, “The Celtic Idea of the Origin of Man”, in An Introduction to Mythology, Cosimo, Inc, →ISBN, page 169. From the entry manred
• Beautiful, and teeming infinitely with life, even when there was no ship asail upon its cresting bosom—like now.2000, J. N. Williamson, Frights of Fancy, page 234. From the entry asail
• This is Hammacher Schlemmer's nongadget catalogue, teeming with beautiful furnishings, rugs and clothing, much of it Arts and Crafts-inspired.1994 November 27, “Holiday Shopping by Mail”, in Philadelphia Inquirer, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2016. From the entry nongadget
• But to me it teemed, and its inhabitants were leviathans.1970, Country Life, volume 148, page 236. From the entry troutful
• From my vantage point in this teeming city it appears that Father—feeling, I suspect, that it was ordained—accepts Mr.1966, George Backer, Appearance of a Man, Random House, page 93. From the entry polloi
• Last week plump Admiral Helfrich was not at sea, but in the United Nations' well-guarded, teeming headquarters in interior Java.1942 February 23, “Dutchman's Chance”, in TIME, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2008. From the entry United Nations
• A rat breastfeeding its teeming young.2022, Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt. From the entry Cool S
• The teeming multitudes are to be found hidden in the soil, or beneath the debris that covers much of the earth's surface.2020 [1975], John Cloudsley-Thompson, Terrestrial Environments, Routledge, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry cryptosphere
• Past a bank of vending machines and a skill crane teeming with colorful prizes, I stopped when I reached the end court outside of Macy's.2017 September 7, Matthew Newton, Shopping Mall, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 113. From the entry skill crane
• It reminds me of the profession, exploded only recently, that the Government officials were the real Ma baps of the teeming millions of this country.1925, Bombay Millowners' Association, The Indian Cotton Excise Duty, page 176. From the entry ma bap
• Journals and magazines teemed with it.1911, Stephen Leacock, “The Passing of the Poet”, in Literary Lapses, London: John Lane, page 187. From the entry rhapsodize
• The walls of the galleries in some of the formicaries were tenanted by teeming colonies of the minute lestobiotic, or thief ant, Solenopsis molesta Say.1902, William Morton Wheeler, “The Occurrence of Formica Cinerea Mayr and Formica Rufibarbis Fabricius in America”, in The American…. From the entry lestobiotic
• The Commons teemed with airily dressed mothers and unjacketed businessmen, the emotional gloom of a winter-bound populace exposed by the sun to be as seasonally fragile as ice.2008, Heidi Julavits, The Uses of Enchantment, page 351. From the entry unjacketed
• This was a time of land hunger and severely declining living standards for the teeming mass of smallholders, cottagers, and landless laborers who crowded onto the land.2001, David Levine, At the Dawn of Modernity: Biology, Culture, and Material Life in Europe, →ISBN, page 282. From the entry dwarf-holder
• Thereafter, when I have eaten and drunken and made merry in my royal palace at Carcë, I will sail with my armies over the teeming deep to many-mountained Demonland.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 21. From the entry footstool
• Seventy beds keeps he there teeming mothers are wont that they lie for to thole and bring forth bairns hale so God’s angel to Mary quoth.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey]…. From the entry thole
• The field of nominees for “Best Taboo Relations Movie” was teeming with fauxcest films, and Keep It in the Family — a series of explicit vignettes directed by Jacky St.2016 February 9, Lynsey G, “Why Women Watch “Fauxcest” Porn”, in Refinery29. From the entry fauxcest
• Come summer, the brasserie terraces teem with stereotypical blonde Sloane Rangers sipping rosé; an artier crop of whatever's stylishly edgy will have taken up residence outside the Royal Court Theatre.2012, Time Out Shortlist London 2012 […] , Random House, →ISBN. From the entry Sloane Ranger

Meaning of teem

1. verb To be stocked to overflowing.
2. verb To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
3. verb To fall prolifically.

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Questions about teem in a sentence

How do you use teem in a sentence?

Teem is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Fish teem in this pond.”

What is a short sentence with teem?

“Fish teem in this pond.”

What does teem mean?

Teem means to be stocked to overflowing.