How to Use teem in a Sentence

teem

verb

• 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
• But the current of progress—teeming with color and radiance, with a belief in a more equitable world—rages and rages.
  — Wired, 10 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 3 May 2024