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Example sentences for "teeming"

Lexicographically close words:
teef; teeing; teel; teem; teemed; teems; teen; teenage; teenager; teenagers
  1. That from the seedness the bare fallow brings To teeming foison.

  2. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore .

  3. You are near the sea marge of a land teeming with life.

  4. As I threaded my way through this teeming region with Mateo at my heels, I passed occasionally some rustic party, seated on the ground, making a merry though frugal repast.

  5. Under the guidance of Mateo, I made my way through streets already teeming with a holiday population, to the square of the Vivarrambla, that great place for tilts and tourneys so often sung in the Moorish ballads of love and chivalry.

  6. The Artauds, those bastards who sprang up out of the rocky soil with the persistence of brambles, were now in their turn blowing a blast that reeked of teeming life.

  7. The orchard, with its green depths and chaos of mossy trunks, disquieted him and suggested to his mind some dark, dank spot, teeming with snakes and nettles.

  8. And hedges of raspberry canes shot up like wild brambles, while the ground was but a carpet of strawberry plants, teeming with ripe berries which exhaled a slight odour of vanilla.

  9. And there were rosy-blossomed peach-trees that won a place amid this teeming growth as pretty maids do amidst a human crowd by dint of bright smiles and gentle persistence.

  10. And there one can hear all the teeming life of the garden, of the trees and the streams and the sky.

  11. The meaning is that Egypt shall be laid waste by the sword, its teeming population led into captivity, and the land shall lie desolate, untrodden by the foot of man or beast for the space of forty years.

  12. Vast stretches of marsh, with teeming populations, were drained, and turned into firm, arid plains or bleak hill-sides.

  13. We cannot be content, however, merely to throw on the screen, as it were, a few of the more quaint and monstrous types out of the teeming Mesozoic population, and describe their proportions and peculiarities.

  14. Later on, when the ponds and marshes are teeming with animal life, they have plenty of food.

  15. All this time he sat thoughtful, and even pale; for his mind was teeming with the pregnant consequences of such an outbreak.

  16. This extraordinary speech struck the major less, at the time, than it did, years afterwards, when he came to reflect on all the events and dialogues of this teeming week.

  17. At the back is the city, teeming with life, humming with trade, muttering with the thunder of passage.

  18. Old, frightful chasms has boldly spanned, And hung his teeming thoroughfares high 'Twixt rushing torrent and bending sky.

  19. Then her thoughts travelled far afield, for a delightful notion had taken possession of her, and her young brain was teeming with a scheme so great it was--well, it was fully worthy of itself.

  20. How slowly creep the hours, teeming with memories of the past and expectations of the future!

  21. Besides oleanders the pomegranates grow all along this shore in dense masses half embedded in teeming vegetation.

  22. At night this teeming bog became a place of dank and horrid mystery.

  23. We were about to re-enter the land of the teeming furrow.

  24. The great covered alleys were now teeming with life.

  25. Those colossal markets and their teeming odoriferous masses of food had hastened the crisis.

  26. And now that he was back in Paris once more, he found it fat and sleek and flourishing, teeming with food in the midst of the darkness.

  27. His head was teeming with old stories of the police, stories of spies prowling about at every street corner, and of women selling the secrets which they managed to worm out of the unhappy fellows they deluded.

  28. Behind the Restaurant Philippe, with its frontage of gilt woodwork rising to the first floor, there was a yard like that of a farm, dirty, teeming with life, reeking with the odour of manure and straw.

  29. Now at last he was at liberty to do what he liked, and he tried to shake himself free from that intolerable vision of teeming food by which he was pursued.

  30. I feared that when Europe poured her teeming millions of working people upon our shores, our extended laws of franchise would enable them to swamp our free institutions, and reduce us to anarchy.

  31. He kept the press literally teeming with notices in one form or another.

  32. As he lay on the ground he seemed to feel the heart of the Earth-mother beating under his own, and he was filled with a sense of her teeming vitality and his individual share of it.

  33. Peter cast a glance at the still teeming clouds.

  34. Numerous are the instances of men who would never have been heard of as thinkers or as reflective poets, if they had had sufficient muscular ballast to pull against their teeming brains.


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