Example Sentences

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If robots and other AI come to penetrate deeply into our lives and homes, situations akin to the one McCarthy describes will busy ethicists and regulators for a very long time.

From Slate • Jan. 7, 2016

He hopes that by doing this the wolf, instead of eating him, will busy himself first of all with the shepherd, or perhaps the shepherd will attack the wolf.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile the company will busy itself with numerous smaller jobs such as building rocket cars for the Chicago Exposition, and duralumin tank cars for gasoline.

From Time Magazine Archive

Beside this, I will busy myself in getting together authentic collections from our French seas, both Oceanic and Mediterranean, and even from other points in the European seas.

From Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence by Agassiz, Louis

Each dress will busy a hundred fingers instead of ten.

From Sophisms of the Protectionists by White, Horace