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    1. Billie busied herself filling the kettle from an ancient faucet that jutted from the wall


    2. He busied himself loosening her boots, lifting one foot at a time to draw them off, all the time casting glances at her face as if measuring and assessing her state of mind


    3. She busied herself the rest of the day by wiping down the counters, and then mopped the kitchen floor


    4. ' So I sat down and waited like a patient while he busied himself in the kitchen


    5. They shot each other glances and busied themselves stuffing their backpacks


    6. Lucy sat in silence at the kitchen table staring at the early morning news on the television while her mother busied herself with toast and tea, smoking the first cigarette of the day as if her life depended on it


    7. and busied themselves with their notes and their scores


    8. television while her mother busied herself with toast and tea,


    9. Mum – looking different with her hair long and unpermed – an older woman, an older version of Mum … it must have been one of the few times Gran came round before she moved in with them …hearing a conversation going on over her head as she busied herself with bricks on the carpet


    10. Taking a sausage from the nearly empty plate in the middle of the table, Chrissie busied herself making it look as though she was eating

    11. Chrissie looked at him sharply and busied herself with clearing the dishes


    12. I’d busied myself putting the phone down and tidying one or two papers on the heap … trying very hard to behave as though it was a perfectly normal occurrence for me to have phone conversations with men arranging dinner dates … I failed


    13. While Harry busied himself with a bit of construction, he set the ladies to prepping and painting the sides of the house


    14. Emma busied herself with little things for most the day, and when Alex returned around mid-night, he came with a full Bronco, and a bag Mike had packed for her


    15. Then she busied herself with mugs and tea and sugar


    16. The next evening when Theoton came into the nursery, Nerissa busied herself with


    17. Finally, she sighed and returned inside the house and busied herself with egg counting


    18. Rex busied himself in the important business of per-


    19. Angela busied herself with the


    20. While Jack busied himself in the kitchen, Maureen locked herself in the shower and wept

    21. Careful not to stare, she busied herself with pouring out the tea, ensuring that the mistress’ cup was not the first or the last, she hated weak tea almost as much as she despised strong tea


    22. Pouring himself a glass of wine from a decanter on the desk, Daltrez, the White Wizard then busied himself searching the lines of books that covered most of one wall behind the desk


    23. Very few slaves were visible and those that were covered with hoods or cowls and busied themselves away from the visitors as they progressed their tour


    24. Roy busied himself for a few more minutes, took some items out of the drawer and said


    25. I busied myself, sold a few items and


    26. We returned to the house and I busied myself in the bathroom, replacing the bad tiles and using the new grout


    27. Dawn watched as he busied himself adjusting something on the machine


    28. Christmas without their father, and had busied themselves for weeks in


    29. “Your friend didn’t have any juicy stories about me, did she?” She busied herself adjusting the pleat of her pants


    30. Instead, I busied myself

    31. They returned separately to their wicker chairs, first Truman who busied himself with a freshly prepared drink, rattling ice cubes in his glass


    32. Lesser officials busied themselves with arranging communiques, writing down orders and manifests and then calling for couriers or perhaps taking it upon themselves to forward the appropriate documents and even matériel to their intended recipients


    33. Sim busied himself getting a scrambled message off to Centralia


    34. As soon as she was on her feet, Mister busied himself round their group, wagging his tail with pleasure


    35. To quell his anxiety Truman busied himself preparing coffee, and was startled when from a darkened corner came the dry old voice of his grandfather


    36. He again slipped out from them as they busied themselves, and with another bark of attention, he hurriedly made a mark beside the very long one that went where the waters flowed


    37. The director busied himself with picking back and forth through various camera angles as the field moved off


    38. Mashu, looking a little embarrassed at such an open display of affection, busied himself with hanging his new hunter’s bow over the reconstructed lintel


    39. priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites


    40. A male technician busied himself at the computer

    41. Derek grabbed his clipboard and busied himself with the day’s


    42. likewise ascending after them, whiles they were busied with them that were within, burnt the towers, and kindling fires burnt the


    43. While Adrian busied himself downstairs, I rested, letting the warm water soothe


    44. I was surprised when a woman walked into the kitchen and busied herself there


    45. Jesse busied herself wiping the already clean counter as he passed on his way to the refrigerator


    46. sipped her tea as Ma busied herself in the compact kitchen area


    47. cement columns, members of the cast busied themselves with a cursory review of their most difficult lines


    48. He busied himself, turning on the immersion heater and stoking up the fire


    49. The elves followed him, still weeping, and as he busied himself with his brazier and a teapot Theramin had given him the night before


    50. 36 Others likewise ascending after them whiles they were busied with them that were within burnt the towers and kindling fires burnt the blasphemers alive; and others broke open the gates and having received in the rest of the army took the city 37 And killed Timotheus that was hid in a certain pit and Chereas his brother with Apollophanes











































    1. Michael, after tutting at the state of Dave’s carving knife, busies himself with a steel, sharpening the offending article


    2. ’ She said, her eyes on his back as he busies himself with mugs and spoons


    3. He busies himself with the keyboard again


    4. Nita busies herself at the counter, making sure the containers there are lined up, though they haven’t moved since we first came in


    5. Not sure that he has fooled the watchers of this planet he busies himself by cleaning the blood off Martin and dressing him in fresh clothes


    6. SHEENA BUSIES HERSELF WITH THE KETTLE AS WE HEAR CALUM KNOCKING


    7. Then his wife busies herself, grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her fingers covered with verdigris in the process, undertakes the education of half-share tenants and the training of farmers, convokes lawyers, presides over notaries, harangues scriveners, visits limbs of the law, follows lawsuits, draws up leases, dictates contracts, feels herself the sovereign, sells, buys, regulates, promises and compromises, binds fast and annuls, yields, concedes and retrocedes, arranges, disarranges, hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, and that consoles her


    8. Devoting his life to works of the flesh, a man busies himself with actions depending on temporary causes outside himself


    1. you’re busy, but isn’t it possible to read ten pages when you wake up in the morning, you jump into your book to wake up your mind


    2. The kitchen could keep a staff of four busy and the table sat twenty


    3. Herndon was busy bringing the boat to dock


    4. While he was busy with that, Ava looked over the camp


    5. If she was busy, it’s entirely possible she didn’t see the person who shot her … she was shot from behind, you understand


    6. Email is the best way to communicate with your older, busy grandchildren


    7. They are able to attend to school requirements with each other’s help and assistance from elders, as the parents would be usually busy


    8. ‘Surely, they weren’t seriously seeing you as the perpetrator?’ he asked glancing round at me as his hands are busy washing the dishes under the hot tap


    9. Telbule alley wasn't busy at the moment, getting into mid before-lunch


    10. "You had better be busy then

    11. He points across the busy street


    12. to come back to it… I became busy with other things…” She asked God


    13. As my hands busy themselves in the soapy water, my mind races over the evening


    14. I had to climb over a heap of black bags full of clothing to get to the phone … Molly and I have been busy


    15. I've had enough, fuck off out it Petrarkis, I'm a busy man


    16. "I know I've been busy and left you with the cherubs too much


    17. You've been busy studying the planet too, there's a lot to catch up on there


    18. "What is it Tom, I'm busy with this Sunnyvale stuff


    19. light in their eyes, these daughters of his with their busy lives and their boisterous


    20. They made excuses about how busy their lives had been

    21. She had not been on the yacht for three days when her backup was taken, but she didn't think he had either since they were both busy with departure at that time


    22. With their cuteness, tricks, tears, mischief, as well as with their endless demands, they manage to keep their parents always busy -especially their mother


    23. Ahmed kept him busy the next few days supporting many other meetings as different groups of important souls from the expedition argued this way and that regarding the world of Satan


    24. He’s probably busy catching up on his workload


    25. ‘I never thought of that – it must have been a busy time


    26. Bahkmar was not so nonchalant about the lack of mothers but Enrico was busy for almost half an hour


    27. ‘I was so busy in December I hadn’t noticed my period didn’t happen and I’d been lulled into a sense of security by the fact that I had a bit of a period in November … though it wasn’t anywhere near normal


    28. What's going on? The sonic war against me is getting more and more unbearable day by day and I just can't stand it any more! For some strange reason, I am surrounded by all kinds of noise pollution: Every morning, at 7:30 am, my father gets out to the yard and keeps himself busy with meaningless tinkering and hammering at pieces of wood or metal for hours! When I return from work at 4:00 in the afternoon and lie in bed so as to have a brief nap, dad goes upstairs, to Alice's half-built penthouse, and starts hammering at stuff again till 5:30 that I leave for the gym! He doesn't really repair anything, he just enjoys the noise! The yard and the penthouse are full of rusty tools, old dilapidated furniture and all kinds of junk dad finds on the road and carries home! I often complain about the noise and the piggery but he never listens; on the contrary, he swears like a trooper!


    29. Our time together passed in a flash, so busy were we with our conversation and our sharing of simple human contact


    30. Their order had been taking awhile and the place was not that busy today

    31. He gave up on business, spent hours writing hopeless paeans to her memory, and slowly the light in their eyes, these daughters of his with their busy lives and their boisterous men folk, ceased to burn for him


    32. Hauling her thoughts away from such matters, Kara looked around the busy high street with interest threaded with a certain amount of caution


    33. ‘That’s him!’ she whispered to Iain, waving at the man in question now busy scanning the crowds


    34. goats which grazed in front of their house or got busy


    35. friends and was busy visiting their families in the


    36. Alone, with the busy slope of backpacks,


    37. It had been hard visiting Abery before but Joris hadn’t been there and she’d been able to withdraw into herself to some extent … and the European trip had been hectic, demanding her full attention … and in London afterwards she’d been occupied in achieving Joris’s purpose … and the trip across had kept her mind busy, first with JJ and then Iain … and even coming back, being at The Centre and travelling on the wasteg … that too had been manageable … but now … with no purpose to drive her, no solitude to enfold her and no Joris but only the shadow of his memory imprinted in JJ’s face and voice … she felt naked, vulnerable and viciously exposed to the scouring of her grief


    38. He was busy grooming Starlight – something they had argued about, until he had pointed out that if he couldn’t do something practical, he would go crazy and she had conceded the point – and she was perched on a hay bale watching him


    39. out what was keeping you busy


    40. Through streets busy with lives and kids and reasons to pay bills

    41. Victoria is busy with a predator/prey mass ratio, Glenelle is training wildlife species recognizers


    42. He is busy with the clowns


    43. Poopsie was busy in the Tavern; she was putting away the mugs


    44. Can’t have the house open to who knows what when we’re not here, can we?” He was busy making the pancakes while the sausage sizzled in another frying pan


    45. Desa was also pretty quiet both days, keeping herself busy foraging and with little things around the camp


    46. It's tentacles were busy all over the place, one swung a large bloodshot eye her way only inches from her face


    47. You and Steve have been very busy since we’ve been gone


    48. During that time they were very busy


    49. that crackles outwards from the busy centre of the universe


    50. Every receptacle and cubicle in the men's toilet at the airport was busy














































    1. I stare at the bag I am busying myself with, not daring to look her in the eye


    2. ’ I told her, busying myself with the stuff on the dressing table in front of me but she is not fooled


    3. The receptionist, ostensibly busying herself with some papers, is obviously earwigging for all she is worth but she looks puzzled so probably doesn’t have a clue what we are talking about


    4. Busying himself with his recently applied bandages tied around his taught body by the nurse, who he would have normally tried to hit on, but now interestingly wasn’t an option, Levi burrowed his brows


    5. Levi looked down at his fingers, busying himself with his whitening knuckles


    6. I couldn’t hide the blood rushing to my face, so instead I turned away from him, busying myself with cleaning an area that was already spotless


    7. With the exception of today's request for an audience, Whitey had been quietly busying himself studying previous reports in his small office in the White House near the Situation Room


    8. Athene took her mind off things, busying herself by preparing the fireplace with logs stacked nearby; she craved warmth after her gallivanting about in this frozen wasteland


    9. that this young boy is busying his brain at


    10. They were busying themselves gawking at the surroundings of this demented abode, and may have fancied that I was simply looking for the right key

    11. the days since the loss of her love busying herself with affairs of


    12. The four figures in black that had been busying themselves


    13. A middle-aged woman was busying placing dirty laundry in canvas bags behind the counter


    14. I stall by busying myself with throwing


    15. At least while the others are busying fooling around with each other, none of them will think about making me their girlfriend


    16. Chef Luc said that he would fetch the van around to the front of the shop while the two boys said there farewells to Gabrielle who had been busying herself tending to customers, having now opened the shop for business


    17. The rest of the day was spent busying himself in the kitchen, but he still wondered where his cream cheese was


    18. His mother was busying herself preparing a hearty cooked breakfast


    19. While Tom was busying examining the suits, Kevin warily watched the hall


    20. It did however surprise Byron as he sat across from the actress in her trailer with no other person around, the door to the trailer shut, only a few crew outside, busying themselves with setting up for the early start

    21. The blondes exchanged looks, and I hid my smile by busying myself by the sink


    22. She took a surreptitious mouthful of air and released it slowly, busying herself with the mess of papers on her desk


    23. They tried continuing their normal activities; busying themselves with their market, but all the while, each kept one fearful eye on us, suddenly filled with horror at our presence yet trying not to let it show


    24. This was a crowd that was used to this; continuing with daily life, busying themselves, yet always insecure and waiting for something to happen


    25. One man looked at me, then at the hill, back and forth; until he saw me staring and then knelt over again, busying himself in the garden


    26. Several men seemed to be busying themselves at the back of the bank – one could hear them call out to each other


    27. With the team and Taksin busying themselves with their preparations


    28. Mark was busy or at least pretending to be busying, sifting aimlessly through the piles of unimportant memos, invoices and delivery notes that had accumulated on his desk at the Velvet Sun Factory


    29. She turned, busying herself, reaching for the flour sack that lay at the foot of the bed


    30. As Jessie set to work on his daily duties of: teeth, hair, cigarette and food; Will was busying himself making breakfast with a nice cup of tea to follow

    31. She watched Scott busying himself in the lounge, lost under whatever spell the idea of Ingrid having a baby had put her under


    32. Apollon, who had already sat down to his work and put on his spectacles again, at first glanced askance at the money without speaking or putting down his needle; then, without paying the slightest attention to me or making any answer, he went on busying himself with his needle, which he had not yet threaded


    33. But where was his mind? Far and deep in its own region, busying itself, with preternatural activity, to marshal a


    34. Monygham, after busying himself with a little medicament box of polished wood on the seat of the landau, turned to old Giorgio and thrust into his big, trembling hand one of the glass-stoppered bottles out of the case


    35. We kept to our camp all day, therefore, Lord John busying himself, with such help as we could give him, in raising the height and thickness of the thorny walls which were our only defense


    36. Indeed, June was busying around the house when I walked in


    37. I hear my Nana busying herself in the kitchen, preparing a plate of tongue for my tea, followed by a bowl of tinned tangerines that curdles the Carnation milk poured over them


    38. In her father's absence Eugenie had the happiness of busying herself openly with her much-loved cousin, of spending upon him fearlessly the treasures of her pity,—woman's sublime superiority, the sole she desires to have recognized, the sole she pardons man for letting her assume


    39. Talley was busying herself while Mitch sat at the old Formica table with a couple of open Heinekens in front of him


    40. He was busying himself drawing giant cocks on all the photos

    41. About five o'clock, Toussaint, who was going and coming and busying herself with the tiny establishment, set on the table a cold chicken, which Cosette, out of deference to her father, consented to glance at


    42. All is not there; the true All remains without; what is the use of busying oneself over that detail, man? Man suffers, that is quite possible; but look at Aldebaran rising! The mother has no more milk, the new-born babe is dying


    43. One after the other, through the port-holes, as he sped, he also caught flying glimpses of Stubb and Flask, busying themselves on deck among bundles of new irons and lances


    44. What is it to you if I'm late; if I'm late, you may be sure I have good reason,” muttered Agafya, busying herself about the stove, without a trace of anger or displeasure in her voice


    45. Apollon, who had already sat down to his work and put on his spectacles again, at first glanced askance at the money without speaking or putting down his needle; then, without paying the slightest attention to me or making any answer he went on busying himself with his needle, which he had not yet threaded


    46. “Micky tells me you are busying yourself with prison work


    47. The inspector was in the corridor, and, busying himself with some affair, had forgot to send for Bogodukhovskaia


    48. But by the time he was busying himself with the affairs of Kusminskoie he had forgotten it


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    Synonyms for "busy"

    busy occupy busybodied interfering meddlesome meddling officious engaged in use fussy full bustling crowded swarming packed popular jammed overrun occupied employed engrossed absorbed working industrious assiduous fraught diligent sedulous hardworking overworked unavailable taken active vigourous energetic lively brisk nimble spry prying intrusive forward employ work

    "busy" definitions

    keep busy with


    actively or fully engaged or occupied


    overcrowded or cluttered with detail


    intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner


    crowded with or characterized by much activity


    (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line)