busy
adjective
actively and attentively engaged in work or a pastime.
am busying
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present progressiveof busy (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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You say to me that I am busying myself with the best method of walking, and refusing to discuss where to go.
From Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women by Arnold Bennett
I am busying myself to give you the particulars at large.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Samuel Richardson
I have taken charge of one, and am busying myself in finding means to allow the rest to live.
From Queens of the French Stage by H. Noel Williams
"It is in the hope that no payment may ever be demanded of you," he rejoined, "that I am busying myself in your affairs."
From The Darrow Enigma by Melvin Linwood Severy
At the moment I am busying myself with the problems of the nourishment of infants and the care of children.
From The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II by Gerhart Hauptmann
