Example Sentences

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But when Roger finds out one of his top account men is busying himself with writing he tells him to cut it out.

From Time • Apr. 16, 2012

But the Federal Office of Education is busying itself with these matters.

From Time Magazine Archive

While Zack is busying himself by making vroom, vroom noises, Dad motions for me to step back outside.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

He is dressed in his khaki, and his wife, who is busying about his breakfast, is rising to a sublime but heartbreaking cheerfulness for the last farewell.

From The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War by Caine, Hall, Sir

Apparently I do not, but in a moment the adjutant-general is busying himself at his haversack.

From Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life by King, Charles