busy
adjective
actively and attentively engaged in work or a pastime.
are busying
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present progressiveof busy.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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Homebound residents in the Washington region are busying themselves with spring cleaning and yardwork during the coronavirus shutdown, putting stress on some suburban trash collection systems.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2020
But locals are busying themselves with plans to turn Varosha into an ecological city in the hope of spurring economic development.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2014
In one department after another, planning for the future has all but stopped, and underlings are busying themselves with housekeeping chores while they await Johnson's successor.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a word, those 35,000 Russians are still far away under the horizon, when thoughts of a new Congress, "Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle," are busying the public mind: "Mere moonshine again?"
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Thomas Carlyle
Let us rejoice that we have become more rational, and discarded all that folly, and are busying ourselves with rational affairs—Wall-street, and cent per cent. and dividends.
From The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by John Esten Cooke
