Get to know Teem better with 7 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like swarm or crowd.
Teem in a sentence
Related words
Teem meaning
- To be stocked to overflowing.
- To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
- To fall prolifically.
Using Teem
- The main meaning on this page is: To be stocked to overflowing. | To be prolific; to abound; to be rife. | To fall prolifically.
- Useful related words include: pullulate, swarm, crowd, stream.
- In the example corpus, teem often appears in combinations such as: teem with, cities teem.
Context around Teem
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Teem
- In this selection, "teem" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cities, panels and islands stand out and add context to how "teem" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and cities teem with grassroots and beaches below teem with people. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "teem" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with teem
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Port cities teem with elegant sailing ships, costumes are colorful and pockets of humor and romance leaven the action sequences. (20 words)
In summer, the beaches below teem with people, with car parks full by early morning and every patch of sand covered. (21 words)
In an age when people are networked together and towns and cities teem with grassroots initiatives, that model will no longer work. (22 words)
And in a race expected to teem with top Trump officials and former high-profile Trump endorsees, Mr. Sununu is a local dynastic heir who might still stake a greater claim than such competitors to political independence and self-sufficiency. (40 words)
The islands teem with pirates dressed in outfits that seem to come from movies and comic books rather than history, and there are many deliberate anachronisms and references to modern-day popular culture. (33 words)
Blocks of flats that teem with life in, say, ’s film and album Ill Manors, stand eerily quiet and vacant in Laws’s images. (24 words)
Example sentences (7)
And in a race expected to teem with top Trump officials and former high-profile Trump endorsees, Mr. Sununu is a local dynastic heir who might still stake a greater claim than such competitors to political independence and self-sufficiency.
In summer, the beaches below teem with people, with car parks full by early morning and every patch of sand covered.
Port cities teem with elegant sailing ships, costumes are colorful and pockets of humor and romance leaven the action sequences.
In contrast to such artful minimalism, Joe Sacco believes that more is more; his large-scale panels teem with detail, visual and verbal.
Blocks of flats that teem with life in, say, ’s film and album Ill Manors, stand eerily quiet and vacant in Laws’s images.
In an age when people are networked together and towns and cities teem with grassroots initiatives, that model will no longer work.
The islands teem with pirates dressed in outfits that seem to come from movies and comic books rather than history, and there are many deliberate anachronisms and references to modern-day popular culture.
Common combinations with teem
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: