Example Sentences

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That unbusy feeling has attracted families like Paula Kelley’s for generations.

From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2021

And if you consider how laughably unbusy Kierkegaard’s Copenhagen was, compared with our own age, those subjective tweets and hasty blog posts don’t seem so essayistic.

From The Guardian • Nov. 4, 2017

At the trendy Butcher and the Brewer, I sat for several long minutes before any of the five faces behind the epic but unbusy bar bothered to make eye contact.

From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 2016

The dashboard, knobs and switches are all within easy reach, and designed with an unbusy simplicity.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2015

Hickman is a sort of fiddling, busy, yet, to borrow a word from you, unbusy man: has a great deal to do, and seems to me to dispatch nothing.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Richardson, Samuel