TEEM in a Sentence

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For TEEM, below is one of 7 sentences:
When I had lain awake a little while, those extraordinary voices with which silence teems began to make themselves audible.

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 Meanings and Examples of TEEM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
teem
 v.  be abuzz; be full of; move in large numbers
Classic Sentence:
1  Yet his very elbows, when he had his back towards me, seemed to teem with the expression of his fixed opinion that I was extremely young.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
2  When I had lain awake a little while, those extraordinary voices with which silence teems began to make themselves audible.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLV
3  If it should be, and he came to London, with his teeming millions.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  And everything will be teeming with life, and not a moment will there need to be lost, seeing that, had you even twenty eyes, you would have need for them all.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
Example Sentence:
1  The plaza will teem with undercover policemen.
2  Although boosters of drilling there have long tried to cast the vast region in northeastern Alaska as a virtual frozen desert, the wilderness actually teems with life.
3  This river is teeming with fish.