busy
adjective
actively and attentively engaged in work or a pastime.
was busying
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past progressiveof busy.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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William Jennings Bryan Jr., 54-year-old son of the Great Commoner, was busying himself with bird feathers in Los Angeles.
From Time Magazine Archive
So he was busying himself with other things assuming I would have to come out eventually—and he missed his chance.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
Now Worm- tail was busying himself at the bottom of the cauldron with a wand.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
He smiled hopefully, and I glanced over at Twig, because she was the one who usually started talking in awkward situations, but she’d turned pink and was busying herself by picking apart a marshmallow.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
Kept running in my head now and disturbing me all the while Jenkins was busying himself about me.
From The Haunted Pajamas by Francis Perry Elliott
