busy
adjective
actively and attentively engaged in work or a pastime.
had busied
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past perfectof busy.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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As the days went on, she went back to gardening, babysitting and all the activities she had busied herself with since retiring.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 15, 2019
Mainly he had busied himself with trying to knock an organization together.
From Time Magazine Archive
Osservatore Romano, semi-official news-organ of Pius XI, had busied itself printing the highest-powered extracts of an anti-Italian nature it was able to cull from the back files of German newspapers.
From Time Magazine Archive
His Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the French Government, Mr. Hugh Lloyd Thomas, later gave a dinner for the Duke and Duchess who had busied herself all week buying Mainbocher gowns.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had busied herself with setting pans of oatmeal and oven bread ready for the next morning’s breakfast.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
