How to Use busy in a Sentence

busy

1 of 2 adjective

• I got enough work to keep me busy for a while.
• I will be busy cleaning the house.
• My week has been so busy!
• He is a very busy person.
• He's been busy in the kitchen all afternoon.
• Is there any time in your busy schedule for us to have lunch next week?
• She's busy preparing for her test.
• Are you busy? Can I talk to you for a minute?
• I'm sorry I haven't called. I've been so busy.
• And this isn't even the busiest time of the year for the airport.
  — Joe Taschler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2020
• The airport is the fifth-busiest air cargo hub in the world.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Dec. 2019
• But the wounded still keep the place busy as the fight rages up and down the lines.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• The rest is mostly bliss thanks to the busy lives of his three sons.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
• Too busy shopping for presents to make it to the salon?
  — Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 16 Dec. 2022
• Podcasts are a great way to pass the time when our hands are busy.
  — Popular Science, 23 Dec. 2020
• Which means that her days are just as busy as her nights.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2022
• All the cars and strangers and strange buildings were too busy and fast for him.
  — Chris Outcalt, Longreads, 19 Dec. 2017
• Take time out of your busy schedule to find ways to give this year.
  — Rebekah Lowin, Country Living, 28 Nov. 2022
• That’s what keeps me busy on the road with schools, talking about the themes of the book.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 6 Feb. 2020
• When the two aren't busy putting their special touch around the St.
  — Selena Barrientos, House Beautiful, 5 Sep. 2019
• Some of this is that players are busy, and don't put in the time.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 10 July 2018
• Back in town, this beloved pub gets busy after the lifts close.
  — Todd Plummer, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2019
• What are your go-tos that last through your crazy busy days?
  — Shalwah Evans, Essence, 17 Dec. 2019
• People are so busy this time of year with their own plans.
  — Paul Greenberg, Arkansas Online, 22 Dec. 2020
• Homebuilders have been busy in Athens the past few weeks.
  — Scott Turner | [e-mail], al, 17 July 2022
• Because busy hands loosen up the mind to let ideas bubble up.
  — Janine MacLachlan, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
• The kitchen was so busy, a cook who’d come to play bingo clocked in to help.
  — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2022
• The shop is so busy now that new appointments have a wait time of three months.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 12 Sep. 2020
• Craft kits are pretty much the perfect way to keep kids busy.
  — Leigh Crandall, Country Living, 10 May 2022
• Wie West has been busy during her time away from the tour.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2021

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busy

2 of 2 verb

• The first half of the movie busies itself with saving him.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 8 June 2018
• This Lego set will keep the car lover in your life busy all winter long.
  — Talon Homer, Popular Mechanics, 18 Nov. 2022
• On the coast, a textured wall adds depth and charm without busying things up.
  — Heidi Mitchell, House Beautiful, 16 Aug. 2018
• To busy his hands and mind through it all, West started tinkering in his yard again under the oaks.
  — Marisa Spyker, Southern Living, 18 June 2021
• About a dozen workers busied themselves inside a few space rockets, each one about the size of a jumbo jet.
  — Simon Shuster / Dnipro, Time, 1 Feb. 2018
• Residents busied themselves with home repairs and thoughts of the future.
  — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2020
• Taka, who spent much of this talk busying himself on the computer, makes his way over to the kitchen island and observes.
  — Mariah Smith, The Cut, 24 Apr. 2018
• For now, though, the staff will continue to busy itself with tasks like chasing elephants off the runway.
  — Allison Hope, CNT, 10 Oct. 2017
• Wedding planning isn't the only thing keeping the Olympic gold medalist busy these days.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 20 Apr. 2022
• After all, giddy minds shouldn’t know they’ve been busied.
  — Dominic Tierney, The Atlantic, 11 May 2016
• Your comrades standing around watching the show slowly find other tasks with which to busy themselves, not wanting to stare.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 7 May 2016
• Guests can busy themselves with everything from ice fishing to cooking and baking classes.
  — Sara Clemence, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2020
• One fear is that those who have the resources to help effect action on climate change will instead busy themselves with building their own escape pods.
  — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
• But astronomers are now busying themselves preparing for the next visitor.
  — Nola Taylor Redd, Scientific American, 27 June 2018
• Moore also busied himself as a member of the Caltech board of trustees and as a patriarch of the electronics industry.
  — Ashley Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• Off the field, Winston has busied himself with both his own charitable work and that of the team’s foundation.
  — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 22 June 2018
• That said, thousands of people descended on Park City, some there even to ski, which keeps the place busy the rest of the winter.
  — David Bloom, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• As the trial arguments stretched through the day, so did some of the senators, while others busied themselves by catching up on their reading lists.
  — NBC News, 23 Jan. 2020
• Christmas music rings through every corner of the storage area as volunteers busy themselves, pushing bright red shopping carts down the aisles.
  — Asia Simone Burns, ajc, 22 Dec. 2022
• The lightweight box-like device is small enough to sit on the smallest of bookshelves — or travel wherever a child wants to busy themselves watching shows and playing video games.
  — Paul Schrodt, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2022
• While the battle carries on around Baú, the community busies itself with chores and pastimes.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
• Agricola attributed the difficulty of finding a date suitable for all parties to busy schedules for Cole and the attorneys in the case.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 20 Apr. 2023
• For now, Erin has mostly stayed off social media and instead busied herself with friends and family.
  — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 23 May 2018
• The other is that busying themselves with impeachment will allow Democratic leaders to avoid hard fights over what their own party stands for.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2017
• Ono spent the next few days busying himself with camping stoves, generators, and jerrycans, and paying little attention to the news.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Oct. 2017
• Meanwhile local women busy themselves sorting bottles of wine, left over from a fishermen’s banquet the night before.
  — The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
• Settling in the garage, Anton busies himself making propaganda videos and tidying the garden.
  — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2018
• The Senate has failed to bring the legislation to the floor, instead busying itself with fast-tracking a controversial tax reform bill.
  — Nash Jenkins, Time, 12 Dec. 2017
• The chief sponsor of the League of Nations busied himself in his youth devising constitutions for a phantom yacht club and his college baseball team.
  — Richard Norton Smith, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
• The cabin is too secluded to wander off-property, so guests busy themselves with activities.
  — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024