TEEM in a Sentence

Learn TEEM from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for TEEM, such as:

1. This river is teeming with fish.
2. The plaza will teem with undercover policemen.
3. If it should be, and he came to London, with his teeming millions.
4. When I had lain awake a little while, those extraordinary voices with which silence teems began to make themselves audible.
5. Yet his very elbows, when he had his back towards me, seemed to teem with the expression of his fixed opinion that I was extremely young.

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 Meanings and Examples of TEEM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
teem
 v.  be abuzz; be full of; move in large numbers
Classic Sentence:
1  Yet his very elbows, when he had his back towards me, seemed to teem with the expression of his fixed opinion that I was extremely young.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
2  When I had lain awake a little while, those extraordinary voices with which silence teems began to make themselves audible.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLV
3  If it should be, and he came to London, with his teeming millions.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  And everything will be teeming with life, and not a moment will there need to be lost, seeing that, had you even twenty eyes, you would have need for them all.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
Example Sentence:
1  The plaza will teem with undercover policemen.
2  Although boosters of drilling there have long tried to cast the vast region in northeastern Alaska as a virtual frozen desert, the wilderness actually teems with life.
3  This river is teeming with fish.