had busied
- past perfect of busy.
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
Superstition of the sea had busied thousands of nervous feminine hands with the christening of ships.
From Time Magazine Archive
His mind decades younger than his body, Sir Winston had busied himself at his easel and a writing desk, where he was completing his History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
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
From Deeping-coomb they rode to Isengard, and saw how the Ents had busied themselves.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
