John Burnside

This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not only clean air and a steady climate, but also an abundance of meadows and woodlands, rivers and oceans, teeming with life and the mass existence of other living creatures.

Scottish Writer

Trudie Styler

The film industry is driven by male narrative. Heads of studios are often men, teeming with male executives everywhere you look, and so the narratives we have the screenwriters usually for male leads. Women tend to be second string: the girlfriend of, the secretary who becomes.

English Actress

Edward Weston

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

American Photographer

Paul Guilfoyle

The thing that attracted me to 'CSI' is that these guys are always professional, but underneath, it's teeming with a heavy shadow. Maybe even some decadence and some weirdness with certain characters! And that always intrigued me as an actor.

American Actor

Adam Cohen

Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to the judges they appear before. That is terrible for justice, since the courts are teeming with perfectly legal conflicts of interest.

American Journalist

Paul Davies

If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is teeming with it, for it would be inconceivable that life started twice here but never on all the other earth-like planets.

British Writer

Tom Allen

The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.

American Politician

Lothar Matthaus

Mexico and Italy are countries where you can almost taste the atmosphere from the teeming stands when you're on the field, and that's a real motivation for a player.

German Athlete

Robert Falcon Scott

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

British Explorer

Carrie Nugent

Our solar system is actually a wild frontier, teeming with different, diverse places: planets and moons, millions of objects of ice and rock.

American Scientist

Imagine a scene bustling with action or life when using 'teem'. It suggests vibrant activity.

Vibrant Imagery

'Teem' often exaggerates the amount of something to suggest a very large number.

Exaggerated Quantity

'Teem' is frequently used to describe natural environments that are full of life.

Natural Settings

'Teem' is rarely used in the context of pouring nowadays, it may sound poetic or outdated.

Old-Fashioned Use

The pouring sense of 'teem' isn't common in everyday speech; literature might employ it for effect.

Rare in Conversation

The reproductive sense of 'teem' is archaic; recognize it in historical or scriptural contexts.

Historical Context

In literature, 'teem' may symbolize fertility or abundance, not just physical reproduction.

Literary Symbolism

 are always active. And the signals they send are increases and decreases in the rate of activity, rather than separate bursts. So at every level, our nervous system is teeming with spontaneous activity that helps it interpret and respond to any signals it might receive.

How spontaneous brain...

 Fermented foods are teeming with helpful probiotic bacteria, like lactobacillus and bifidobacteria. Originally used as a way of preserving foods before the invention of refrigeration, fermentation remains a traditional practice all over the world.

How the food you eat...

 also known as leukocytes, that originate in our bone marrow. These cells migrate into the bloodstream and the lymphatic system, a network of vessels which helps clear bodily toxins and waste. Our bodies are teeming with

How does your immune...

 a picture of the cosmos that we definitively know to be wrong. Now maybe those future astronomers will have records handed down from an earlier era, like ours, attesting to an expanding cosmos teeming with galaxies.

Why is our universe...

 it's really helping you stay healthy. Sure, it might seem gross, but can you think of any other substance that can lubricate, keep your body clean, fight infection, and domesticate a teeming bacterial population?

How mucus keeps us...

 so this rock is teeming with life you have kelp crab you have barnacles snail you have muscles you have barnacles on those mussels this is part of a food chain and we are part of and it's not five years after

There’s Still Oil on...

 that humanity has ever seen. Somewhere out there in that vast universe there must surely be countless other planets teeming with life. But why don't we see any evidence of it?

Questions No One Knows...

 snow and unlike outer space where we have yet been able to find life the ocean and every drop of it is teeming with life and so that's why I've become a

Footprints in the ocean...

 Somewhere out there in that vast universe, there must surely be countless other planets teeming with life, but why don't we see any evidence of it?

Why Can't We See...

 our incredible planet is teeming with life and it's a pleasure to share it with you