Sample Sentences for
teem
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    Her hair is thick and brown, the color of a rotten branch teeming with luscious ants.  (source)
    teeming = with a large number of
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    Winnie squinted at her fishing line and tried to picture a teeming world.  (source)
    teeming = filled (with a large number of something)
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    "I always knew Salazar Slytherin was a twisted old loony," Ron told Harry and Hermione as they fought their way through the teeming corridors at the end of the lesson to drop off their bags before dinner.  (source)
    teeming = with a large number of things
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    Although his new world at the moment was just an empty marketplace, he had already seen it when it was teeming with life, and he would never forget it.  (source)
    teeming = filled (with a large number of something)
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    Humans were scarce, and the swamps and woods teemed with wildlife—probably a pretty good time to be a burrowing owl, Roy mused.  (source)
    teemed = were filled (with a large number of something)
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    Some parts of the desert teem with life.†  (source)
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    In the lurid, flickering light, he sees that the airplane was not alone, that the sky teems with them, a dozen swooping back and forth, racing in all directions, and in a moment of disorientation, he feels that he's looking not up but down, as though a spotlight has been shined into a wedge of bloodshot water, and the sky has become the sea, and the airplanes are hungry fish, harrying their prey in the dark.†  (source)
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    From this place, we are invisible but have a clear view of the valley, which is teeming with summer life, greens to gather, roots to dig, fish iridescent in the sunlight.  (source)
    teeming = filled (with a large number of something)
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    As he was given a shovel, the guards suddenly teemed around him, screaming at him to get to work.†  (source)
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    The seats below us teem with people, many of them children, all of them Silver.†  (source)
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    Freud's book teems with examples.†  (source)
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    Perhaps Europe is forever a dark forest, and only Asia waxes healthy and teeming.  (source)
    teeming = filled with busy people
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    My forehead teemed with blood, with heat.†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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Each minute teems a new one.  (source)
teems = gives birth to
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