How to Use teem in a Sentence

teem

verb
  • The fog doesn’t just support the tree but the scores of species that teem in and around it.
    — Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 2 Dec. 2025
  • The desert feels alive—vibrant and teeming.
    — Christine Chitnis, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Soon enough, the space’s ground floor teemed with members of the fashion set.
    — Vogue, 22 Oct. 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
  • Its shores may have not been much to look at, but life teemed underwater.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Every year on that June day, the streets teem with literary life.
    — Kevin Dettmar, The New Yorker, 16 June 2020
  • 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 place is teeming, practically spilling over, with unique finds.
    — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Years ago, the train, bus, and commuter rail hub would teem with homeless people sleeping there overnight.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The room was teeming with oil and gas executives smoking cigars.
    — Michael Biesecker, Twin Cities, 23 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • Hummingbirds flit between the lush foliage, while rays, eels, and fishes teem through the reefs.
    — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Feb. 2020
  • In Stubb’s Cave, strangler-fig roots teemed from ceiling apertures.
    — Henry Wismayer, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2026
  • 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 heat is also a problem for the tiny creatures that teem across Antarctica.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 11 Feb. 2020
  • And the church’s food court would be teeming with families sharing a meal together.
    — National Geographic, 9 Apr. 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
  • Snorkelers can explore the shallow reefs teeming with some of the healthiest corals on the planet.
    — Terry Ward, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Jan. 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
  • At the peak of the evening rush hour, the transit center that normally teemed with buses was summarily closed.
    — John Brant, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Kentridge is at his best when crowds fill the stage, matching the teeming density of his visual aesthetic.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • Yet even mute wooden logs and beams appear to teem with life in Nakashima’s art, whose depths are historical as well as stylistic.
    — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2021
  • This little cove is filled with pristine tide pools teeming with anemone, starfish, and octopus—enough to keep kids and adults occupied for hours.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Current plans for The Lincoln show a dark gray exterior teeming with plant life.
    — Jordyn Grzelewski, cleveland, 1 Feb. 2020
  • The streets, which used to teem with tourists and neighborhood folks, were empty, with a stillness that felt like being underwater.
    — Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 18 May 2022
  • To accept that there will always be creatures teeming nearby, some of them agonizing, expelled from their days.
    — María Ospina, The Dial, 31 Mar. 2026

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