teem

Example Sentences

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Telegram channels teem with users trading tips and middlemen peddling their services.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

The waters of Xochimilco - shaped by traditional farming practices and flushed with spring water from the mountains - used to teem with these amphibians.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2025

All of these characters — even the more objectively callous ones like Father, a retired energy industry magnate writing a revisionist biography to absolve his culpability — teem with empathy.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2024

In the northern Pacific Ocean, undersea slopes leading to the Aleutian Trench are believed to teem with worms, clams, anemones, and countless microbes thriving on methane bubbling up from the sediment.

From Science Magazine • May 21, 2024

He stared at the parlour that was dead and grey as the waters of an ocean that might teem with life if they switched on the electronic sun.

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury