teeming

Example Sentences

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Those same banks are teeming with relatively dormant deposits.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Concert halls are packed, the famed Tretyakov Gallery is teeming even on a midweek afternoon.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

Like his films, Mr. Sayles’s novels are divided among a teeming cast of variegated characters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

Eddie Izzard, the wry, gender-fluid British comedian who came to attention with a stream of observational drollery that picked away at common sense, takes on the whole teeming tragedy.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026

Though exhausted, ill, and anxious about the voyage ahead, they carried evidence of a vast, teeming, interconnected ecosystem of plants and insects, the likes of which the great European academies had never seen.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman