[
UK
/tˈiːmɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈtimɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈtimɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
abundantly filled with especially living things
the Third World's teeming millions
the teeming boulevard
How To Use teeming In A Sentence
- The island was teeming with tourists.
- The park is more commonly associated with the restorative powers of its 2,000 rose garden, teeming wildlife and hay meadows.
- On one occasion we enjoyed a medium drift down a V-shaped channel, watching the usual teeming reef life flash by below and finning back every now and then to peer into crevices before being swept on.
- The music certainly evokes his sense of wonder at teeming natural worlds observed for the first time. Times, Sunday Times
- These are portraits of a different kind, of a river and its teeming life. Times, Sunday Times
- The place would be teeming with people and they'd get a return. The Sun
- The teeming city of Jakarta produces an estimated 23,400 cubic meters of garbage per day.
- The result is a wilderness of ethereal beauty, teeming with wildlife that regards human beings as curious oddities, and a haunting loneliness that is almost tangible. Times, Sunday Times
- Her works are replete with objects teeming with personal histories and memories that also act as media to convey universal ideas.
- Their eyes teeming with concentration searched the graphs and numbers on the screen intently as the information changed second by second.