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Example sentences for "teemed"

Lexicographically close words:
teed; teef; teeing; teel; teem; teeming; teems; teen; teenage; teenager
  1. Their presses teemed with invectives against the British legislature, and it was confidently asserted that England was resolved to reduce the colonies to a state of abject slavery.

  2. Newspapers, pamphlets, and periodicals teemed with biting sarcasm on this most extraordinary circumstance.

  3. The press teemed with denouncements both of the men and their measures; and prosecutions for its bold sentiments became the order of the day.

  4. The press teemed with publications in favour of the colonists, and every breeze wafted them across the mighty waters to add fuel to the flames.

  5. These latter represented the orthodox as divided into Tritheists and Nominalists, and the press teemed with pamphlets setting forth with more or less ability the usual arguments against the Trinity.

  6. The press teemed with answers to their arguments.

  7. Had I not kept in the background, the day would have teemed with adventure, but I should have been less of a hermit.

  8. The commonly imputed repulsiveness of such a waterway is more often wanting than present, and nearly all that I have seen have teemed with interesting life.

  9. I had discovered a hidden highway, a busy thoroughfare that teemed with active life.

  10. Algiers teemed with Christian captives, and it became a common saying that a Christian slave was scarce a fair barter for an onion.

  11. In Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli the dockyards teemed with workmen busily engaged in learning the new build; and the honour, if such it be, of having taught them rests apparently between England and Flanders.

  12. The foundries and dockyards of Algiers teemed with busy workmen.

  13. Many bridges and more tubes extended through the air from building to building, and the watery "streets" teemed with surface craft, and with submarines.

  14. Illustration: Many bridges and more tubes extended through the air from building to building, and the watery "streets" teemed with surface craft, and with submarines.

  15. The highways were infested with rapine and assassination; the cities teemed with the brutal votaries of lewdness, intemperance, and profligacy.

  16. The only land of promise for the Castilian was one that teemed with gold.

  17. Everywhere the land teemed with evidence of agricultural wealth, from the smiling valleys along the coast to the terraced steeps of the sierra, which, rising into pyramids of verdure, glowed with all the splendors of tropical vegetation.

  18. In view of the difficulties that I have mentioned, if the translators had earnestly tried to give us a faithful translation of the Bible their work would have teemed with imperfections.

  19. Genesis tells us that life existed first upon the land; Geology tells us that the sea teemed with animal and vegetable life ages before it appeared upon the land.

  20. Its numerous windows were opened to the light of the sun, its halls teemed with the faces of its happy inmates.

  21. The lagoon teemed with an immense variety of fish, none of which were poisonous, and both green and hawk-bill turtle were captured almost daily.

  22. The cliffs come close to the river on the opposite side, their bases clothed with woods which teemed with birds.

  23. To-day was a holiday at the Board school, and the whole street teemed with prams.

  24. But it teemed with suggestion of continuous correspondence between the lady and gentleman in hand.

  25. But the atmosphere teemed with suggestions of malpractice undefined, and the master-hand of Mrs. Eldridge made the most of them.

  26. His own speeches teemed with the gospel of Italy regenerated; and for a whole month he wasted no time in the sale of his bottighias and pillolas, but threw all his vehement, persuasive, and dramatic eloquence into the popular cause.

  27. On the other hand, the press teemed with tributes in verse and prose to the memory of the deceased; all evincing the mingled feeling of admiration for the author and affection for the man.

  28. City streets, that teemed so with busy life in the daytime.

  29. The country teemed with life; birds filled the air with whirr of wing and with song; as the voyagers paddled ever westward deer and elk came from their forest lairs to gaze with wondering eyes at these unfamiliar intruders on their haunts.

  30. Near by were clusters of bark wigwams, the homes of Ojibwas and other Indians, who came here each year to catch the whitefish that teemed in the waters of the rapids fronting the settlement.

  31. Drona's son, however, afflicted with the shafts of Dhananjaya, quickly entered a division of the Kaurava army that abounded with infuriated elephants and teemed with cars.

  32. And it teemed with diverse kinds of fish.

  33. And it teemed with the (cut off) arms of human beings that constituted its snakes.

  34. And it abounded with bodies of huge elephants deprived of life, and it teemed with cars that formed hundreds of rafts floating on its surface.

  35. Instead of the area being all but deserted, with everyone asleep, it literally teemed with action.

  36. Roofs of the buildings around teemed with spectators.

  37. By the end of July we entered Dijon; by the end of July those hours, days, and weeks had mingled with the ocean of forgotten time, which in their passage teemed with fatal events and agonizing sorrow.

  38. He soon discovered that the lagoon in the centre was of noble proportions, and that its waters teemed with an immense variety of fish and countless 'droves' of sharks.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "teemed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.