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

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

To prepare the trick, Robert E. Phillips Jr., postgraduate student of poultry husbandry at Kansas State College, had busied himself anesthetizing hens, inserting in their egg ducts hollow corks containing notes to Mr. Smith.

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

Rutherford, meanwhile, had busied himself examining “uranium radiation,” his term for the emanations discovered by Becquerel.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik