teem

Object

• metropolis: A coral reef is a teeming metropolis built upon the living skeletons of tiny soft polyps.
• multitude: In the great mountain ranges, let the teeming multitudes grovel in the dust for her.
• million: Referred to within: 55, feature Whatever happened to the teeming millions?
• rain: A photographer drives me, at top speed in teeming rain, to Reykjavik.
• mass: TV for the unwashed, teeming masses is much lower.
• wildlife: You get to see teeming wildlife in pristine wilderness.

Preposition: with

• birdlife: The walk takes you across stony beaches and over a series of cliffs teeming with birdlife.
• seabird: There are impressive vertical cliffs all along the west coast teeming with seabirds in early summer.
• wildlife: Yet these supposedly empty places are of course teeming with wildlife.
• fish: The sea is alive, teeming with fish, teeming with life.
• bird: To say that the area is teeming with birds would be an understatement.
• life: The place is teeming with bird life, only there is not time to look now, the first team is ready to start.

Modifying Another Word

• literally: Greece Greece is literally teeming with ' world music ' activity.
• absolutely: The Fringe Pool is absolutely teeming with golden flanked cheeky Crucian Carp.
• once: The county was once teeming with industry as a supplier of finished goods and agricultural products.
• all: We are all teeming with preconceptions, including me.
• already: The Apollo is already teeming with people as I get in, about 20 minutes before Paradise Lost are due to start their set.
• still: On the streets of London, meanwhile, it is still teeming with rain.

Followed by an intransitive particle

down: It's mid July as I write this and the rain is teeming down outside my window.