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UK
/bˈɪzɪlˌi/
]
[ US /ˈbɪzəɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈbɪzəɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
in a busy manner
they were busily engaged in buying souvenirs
How To Use busily In A Sentence
- Over the last few decades, western civilisations have busily sown the seeds of their own destruction.
- These are complete miniatures of the parents and will soon busily be eating brine shrimp.
- Even analysts who have been busily downgrading tech stocks tend to characterize the rout as a correction, not a long-term trend.
- The building is packed with people busily engaged in conversation.
- Next to her, hands working dexterously on a customer's head, another woman is busily putting the finishing touches to a ‘straightback’ hairstyle.
- The Major government, achieving the only things that matter – stable prices, rising employment and bouyant inward investment – would have been recognised as a success but for the running internal revolt that she busily inflamed. Letters: Bringer of division and bitterness
- Even the fish appeared to be experiencing difficulties swimming against the current; and the site was abuzz in action, as jacks, snappers and groupers busily swarmed about.
- Then he busily flicks through the university's Life Sciences prospectus in search of inspiration.
- Let us assume that the railways, mines, and the leading "trusts" are nationalized, public utilities municipalized, and the national and local governments busily engaged on canals, roads, forests, deserts, and swamps. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement
- I quickly dressed and hurried downstairs to find my mother busily preparing breakfast, after which I was given my big present.