How to Use busy in a Sentence

busy

1 of 2 adjective

• I got enough work to keep me busy for a while.
• I will be busy cleaning the house.
• My week has been so busy!
• He is a very busy person.
• He's been busy in the kitchen all afternoon.
• Is there any time in your busy schedule for us to have lunch next week?
• She's busy preparing for her test.
• Are you busy? Can I talk to you for a minute?
• I'm sorry I haven't called. I've been so busy.
• And this isn't even the busiest time of the year for the airport.
  — Joe Taschler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2020
• The airport is the fifth-busiest air cargo hub in the world.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Dec. 2019
• The daughters have kept us busy over the past 20 years.
  — Jeff Forward, Houston Chronicle, 3 July 2020
• But the wounded still keep the place busy as the fight rages up and down the lines.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• When the two aren't busy putting their special touch around the St.
  — Selena Barrientos, House Beautiful, 5 Sep. 2019
• The rest is mostly bliss thanks to the busy lives of his three sons.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
• That’s what keeps me busy on the road with schools, talking about the themes of the book.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 6 Feb. 2020
• Some of this is that players are busy, and don't put in the time.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 10 July 2018
• Too busy shopping for presents to make it to the salon?
  — Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 16 Dec. 2022
• The kitchen was so busy, a cook who’d come to play bingo clocked in to help.
  — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2022
• All the cars and strangers and strange buildings were too busy and fast for him.
  — Chris Outcalt, Longreads, 19 Dec. 2017
• The eve of el Dia de la Virgen is a busy night for Cantabrana.
  — J. Emilio Flores, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• Podcasts are a great way to pass the time when our hands are busy.
  — Popular Science, 23 Dec. 2020
• Homebuilders have been busy in Athens the past few weeks.
  — Scott Turner | [e-mail], al, 17 July 2022
• Here are 50 things to keep your kids busy when the weather is cold.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2019
• The flocks are noisy and busy, and probably the birds don’t need more stress.
  — National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2020
• Back in town, this beloved pub gets busy after the lifts close.
  — Todd Plummer, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2019
• Which means that her days are just as busy as her nights.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2022
• Not long after, my wife and I had kids and got busy with the rest of our lives.
  — Ben Mattlin, Time, 8 Dec. 2022
• What are your go-tos that last through your crazy busy days?
  — Shalwah Evans, Essence, 17 Dec. 2019
• Take time out of your busy schedule to find ways to give this year.
  — Rebekah Lowin, Country Living, 28 Nov. 2022

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busy

2 of 2 verb

• The first half of the movie busies itself with saving him.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 8 June 2018
• This Lego set will keep the car lover in your life busy all winter long.
  — Talon Homer, Popular Mechanics, 18 Nov. 2022
• On the coast, a textured wall adds depth and charm without busying things up.
  — Heidi Mitchell, House Beautiful, 16 Aug. 2018
• To busy his hands and mind through it all, West started tinkering in his yard again under the oaks.
  — Marisa Spyker, Southern Living, 18 June 2021
• That said, thousands of people descended on Park City, some there even to ski, which keeps the place busy the rest of the winter.
  — David Bloom, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• Taka, who spent much of this talk busying himself on the computer, makes his way over to the kitchen island and observes.
  — Mariah Smith, The Cut, 24 Apr. 2018
• Wedding planning isn't the only thing keeping the Olympic gold medalist busy these days.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 20 Apr. 2022
• In the old days—the ’90s—the affluent but creatively stifled would busy themselves DJing behind a turntable.
  — Marisa Meltzer, Town & Country, 31 Mar. 2022
• For now, though, the staff will continue to busy itself with tasks like chasing elephants off the runway.
  — Allison Hope, CNT, 10 Oct. 2017
• Today, Humphrey is back to busying himself—once again in the sneaker space—with his new footwear brand Code by Gentry.
  — Leah Faye Cooper, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2023
• About a dozen workers busied themselves inside a few space rockets, each one about the size of a jumbo jet.
  — Simon Shuster / Dnipro, Time, 1 Feb. 2018
• The minutes ticked by, and guests busied themselves by taking videos of the scene, which was composed of other people taking videos of the scene.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
• After all, giddy minds shouldn’t know they’ve been busied.
  — Dominic Tierney, The Atlantic, 11 May 2016
• Residents busied themselves with home repairs and thoughts of the future.
  — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2020
• Off the field, Winston has busied himself with both his own charitable work and that of the team’s foundation.
  — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 22 June 2018
• Your comrades standing around watching the show slowly find other tasks with which to busy themselves, not wanting to stare.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 7 May 2016
• During the summer of 2020, at-home tie dye kits sold like hotcakes as people looked to busy themselves during lockdown.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 13 May 2021
• Many of the latter busied themselves with schemes to revive an attachment to the land following the mass migration of millions to cities.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 27 July 2023
• The plan was to spend our last three days basking in sunshine and busying ourselves with outdoor activities.
  — Heather Greenwood Davis, Travel + Leisure, 26 Aug. 2023
• While the battle carries on around Baú, the community busies itself with chores and pastimes.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
• One fear is that those who have the resources to help effect action on climate change will instead busy themselves with building their own escape pods.
  — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
• Moore also busied himself as a member of the Caltech board of trustees and as a patriarch of the electronics industry.
  — Ashley Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• The lightweight box-like device is small enough to sit on the smallest of bookshelves — or travel wherever a child wants to busy themselves watching shows and playing video games.
  — Paul Schrodt, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2022
• As the trial arguments stretched through the day, so did some of the senators, while others busied themselves by catching up on their reading lists.
  — NBC News, 23 Jan. 2020
• Some experts predicted that the debate over the king’s role would fade away quickly, as the unionists busied themselves with a gimlet-eyed reading of the text of the Windsor Agreement.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• Sheldon Neuse, in for Matt Chapman at third, made an error on a potential double play that busied the bases for Santana’s home run.
  — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2019
• Guests can busy themselves with everything from ice fishing to cooking and baking classes.
  — Sara Clemence, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2020
• For now, Erin has mostly stayed off social media and instead busied herself with friends and family.
  — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 23 May 2018
• Agricola attributed the difficulty of finding a date suitable for all parties to busy schedules for Cole and the attorneys in the case.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 20 Apr. 2023
• The Senate has failed to bring the legislation to the floor, instead busying itself with fast-tracking a controversial tax reform bill.
  — Nash Jenkins, Time, 12 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 9 May 2024