teeming

IPA: tˈimɪŋ

Examples of "teeming" in Sentences

It was what we frequently call a teeming brain, one of those four-horse teeming brains, as it were.
At 97, he can still recall the teeming shore that was the Antwerp waterfront as he experienced it in 1922.
Millions of people are imprisoned in teeming cities; millions more labour on Pharaonic projects to rebuild ruined ecosystems.
The British and the Dutch, close-quartered in teeming European cities, may have seen sailing ships and canoes as instruments of commerce.
In Brazil and other countries democracy faces a backlash from millions of badly educated and newly urbanized dwellers in teeming slums, who see few palpable benefits to Western parliamentary systems.
After a day in Antananarivo -- a sprawling, diesel-soaked city that earns the adjective "teeming" -- we leave by car for Andasibe, a former logging village that is now home to a burgeoning ecotourism trade.
The dominant available images prescribe a particularly parochial set of options: a barricaded and insulated rejectionist leadership; pitiful masses suffering in teeming refugee camps or squalid, quarantined communities; and, most prominent of all, terrorist suicide bombers, fanatical malevolent creatures, bereft of normal human motivation and well beyond our comprehension.