has busied
- present perfect of busy (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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New President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has busied himself with budgetary questions, the central bank and a gaffe here and there.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2023
For now, Pence has busied himself with a rigorous political schedule.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2021
Unable to take measurements in person for garments, she has busied herself making curtains for customers, replacing zips or other tasks which can be accomplished without direct human contact.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2021
This is where Doctor Manhattan has busied himself with creating a paradise devoid of want or sin or crime, and whose beings exist to love and serve.
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2019
There were wide differences of temperament; quarrels of some sort—just what, gossip to this day has busied itself trying to discover—and on January 1, 1841, the engagement was broken.
From Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright)
