How To Use Busy In A Sentence

They missed it because they are too busy bootlicking ObamaCare, on their hands and knees. Political Instability and the Coming Defeat of ObamaCare | RedState
I have been very busy lately and the ongoing project will take up about a few more weeks.
Going upmarket, I can go into Dear Soup except on busy days, as the tables are a bit close together and sitting beside a slurper is an ever-present danger. A table for one | 世論 What Japan Thinks
Once upon a time there was an old sow of impeccable reputation who lived a quiet life inside a busy farmyard. Times, Sunday Times
Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person. Horace

Johnson and a cohort of industry representatives have been busy banging the drum for London's fintech scene.
Pediatricians are once again extremely busy this winter as patients with asthma symptoms - the most common disease among children - are crowding into respiratory clinics.
Which of us would want our lives to lay in ruin while those who are supposed to help are busy fighting over politics, power and property that does not belong to them? National Council of Churches
While he was busy, I punched a Tylenol caplet out of its plastic bubble. Ancient, Strange, and Lovely
She always seems to be desperately busy!
I've had an insanely busy day here, and I was listening to the latest album but it was just making me kind of listless and spacy.
The cheapest way I can think of to make people feel like they owe you is to have a crumply cardboard sign saying "Will Work For Food" and hold it up near a busy intersection. Don't Do Me Any Favors, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Experiencing a rare moment alone, the busy mompreneur looked exhausted as she browsed through the store.
My life, as usual, is too busy, too near chaos.
Football clubs have been busy in the close season transfer market.
Partly it's just a recovery attitude after a very busy month, but it's more than that; ennui perhaps.
We walked into the bedroom of Ting Sun, Yao country the English is busy in searching the home position of the Deng of that square, but I seize an opportunity the decoration of lo this bedroom.
Yet on very busy days the students will be under stress and unable to concentrate on learning new skills.
Even ‘busy’ surgeons may take a long time to accrete enough performance data to allow valid comparison with their peers, particularly in low volume specialties such as neurosurgery.
There was no help for it, he had to be left there, and I went away with an anxious mind as to what his busy teeth would be employed upon all night; and, sure enough, next morning a velvet curtain was found nibbled and tattered, and being converted into a nest for the enterprising gerbille! Wild Nature Won By Kindness
Also I lived in a top-floor flat on a busy road, my carpets were foam-backed, the furniture was chipboard and hardboard. M. E. Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome - How To Live With It
You may claim to dislike walking and it is often an unpleasant experience when confined to hard pavements, and busy, polluted streets. How to Lower High Blood Pressure
It was a busy day for those oil stocks traded heavily by friskier private investors. Times, Sunday Times
Expenses figures from Westminster show he has resumed a busy schedule in the Lords.
One visitor from Africa told me that whenever a group of men were standing around talking, their hands were usually busy dehulling egusi seeds. 10: Food science
The little silver bell tinkles at a wayside shrine, calling the labouring man to propitiate the idol for the carelessness and detected dishonesties of his day's labours, and goodly Hindus, men and women, stream down the busy thoroughfare, responsive to the call. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Ever since we first published the book we have been busy compiling a file of local news, newspaper cuttings and potential updates.
- View full size photo uploaded June 1, 2009 Donovan McNabb posted an update over on his Yardbarker blog about what he calls his busy time of year. BallHype - Top Sports News, Videos, and Blogs
The valley is quiet and serene, and right now is bursting with the energy and exuberance of spring - the trees are budding, the daffodils bobbing, the birds are busy, the lambs are bleating and there are calves suckling.
“Darling, while you were out becoming one with the llamas, your brown-nosing protégé was quite busy undermining your daughter.” I.O.U.
Crossing the busy circle is a difficult task for pedestrians in the absence of a subway.
I am too busy to go with you.
It helps them to unwind after a busy day at work.
During fasting, since the body is not busy with gastric processes and since the body is literally emptier, hollower, I believe the nada practices can be even more effective. Kazim Ali: Practicing Yoga on the Mountain of God
Be cautious: many busy prospective employers are turned off by unsolicited phone calls.
A busy owner could get to it cheaply from the UK and take it on little jaunts. Times, Sunday Times
Police were today searching for a thief who snatched hundreds of pounds from a busy shop in Walton.
For several weeks the back of my brain was busy contemplating this daft question, after disassembling the word painstaking in my head. Archive 2006-01-01
Problem is, they're too busy raising money for charity or building an electric bike to care that their dad is holding out an olive branch. The Sun
She makes writing a book sound like busywork ... the strain is as palpable as the voice is cute, and the drama is virtually nonexistent. Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert: Book summary
It was kind of hard to get too worked up about it when the TV news was busy erroneously reporting that the space shuttle was traveling "nearly 18 times the speed of light" when it went boom.
Quit sitting around with your theological mystical excuses and get busy building the temple that I said would be the place my presence resides. Christianity Today
What else will be keeping you busy over the summer months? The Sun
A village postwoman has been branded a ‘nasty busy body’ for deliberately withholding mail from a resident who was an ‘outsider’.
A year after the Darlington Help Furniture project was launched, volunteer workers are still busy organising furniture switches throughout the town.
At sharp five o'clock th 'rivolution begun. Th' sthreets was dinsely packed with busy journalists, polis, sojers, an 'fash'nably dhressed ladies who come down fr'm th' Chang's All Easy in motocycles. Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen
So with that we called up the Hottopic in Orland Square mall, only to get a busy signal for over two hours of constant redialing. Twilight Lexicon » Twilight Tour Continues
` ` Mornin ', Mr. Babbitt!' 'said Moon, and Babbitt felt himself a person of importance, one whose name even busy garagemen remembered -- not one of these cheap-sports flying around in flivvers. Babbitt
Biddy, in her neat little black dress, was busy serving food.
Andy Murray has a busy end to the season, with tournaments in Valencia, Paris and London – plus brother Jamie's wedding Andy Murray saving his best until last as competition intensifies
Telli's sister, his grandmother and two aunts were busy round the fireplace preparing the night's meal.
They are too busy for idle chatter. Times, Sunday Times
We have a very busy unit and are critically understaffed.
a socialite's life † heidi montag and spencer pratt were busy spreading a message of 'grope' - ugh! popsugar † mischa barton is Friday October 24 2008 @ 7: 55AM Popbytes
The groundsmen were busy clearing every last flake of snow Inside the orchestra was practising in the ballroom; the photographers. WEB OF DREAMS
I still cannot get my head round the idea that golf's holy of holies is situated just off a busy dual carriageway.
People were presumably far too busy at the time, and the principal workers have now died.
Since then, he has been busy crossbreeding indie filmmaking, the web, brand marketing and creative services. Tribeca Film: Future of Film: Why Transmedia Is Catching On (Part 2)
Phil Martin is an exceptionally busy man.
Kisangani - The rising sun is already burning a brilliant path across the muddy vastness of the mighty Congo river as the group of busy women bustle around the night's catch.
Except that he was not slothful: he had been busy all night. MURDER SONG
Lauren Wilson said the two men were busy with routine operations when the accident occurred at a subshaft at 9. 15am. ANC Daily News Briefing
And Cymbeline - bless her heart - is down by the fence, still busy making tea for the workers.
While they sang and played, the mother was busy in the kitchen preparing food for the night's dinner.
Referee Declan Corcoran had a busy match, whistling for 45 frees and flashing no less than eight yellow cards in what was a very stop-start game throughout.
Â Are we too busy in our everyday lives to now just trying to meet what we want on a computer so we don't have to waste our prescious time? Crystal Smith: How Would You Find Your Mate?
Co-Ed's first sub-unit, 5dolls, is busy preparing for their upcoming debut, but they took the time out of their schedule to greet everyone for the Lunar New Year wearing hanboks.
Some of the country's main thoroughfares converge at the busy Naas Road roundabout next to the Red Cow Inn.
busywork" program for unemployed, retired politicians to pick up an extra check at the expense of us, the U.S. taxpayers. Bakersfield.com Latest news
For the homeschooling family, continuing the quiet time will reinforce naps for the little ones (if there are any) and may allow older children to accomplish the heavier "brainwork" of school, or just give them some "down time" after a busy morning. Making Home
Worry is a total waste of time. It doesn't change anything. All it does is steal your joy and keep you very busy doing nothing.
_malapropos_; for instance, she called out, to a little fat, stupid, roly-poly girl, to whom Miss Benson was busy explaining the meaning of the word quadruped, Ruth
The nurses were already fluttering around her, busy preparing for the arrival of the future heir.
Amber Kamps has been busy surveying burn areas to determine where there is a need to plant trees.
A bicycle's often far more convenient than a car in busy cities.
While his peers were busy making mischief and thinking about the opposite sex, he became withdrawn.
I lead a very busy life, so spare time is a very precious commodity to me.
What we have now is a kind of a disconnect between that genuine grassroots movement and the old oligarchs, if you will, who are busy self perpetuating themselves.
Companies are so busy analysing the financial implications that they overlook the effect on workers .
So I was busy, -- but managed to dismast the _hantu_ prau and wrap it up in matting, so that it went aboard with the plunder. The Spinner's Book of Fiction
Here, the character Ms. Kudrow plays is far from sympathetic—she's psychotherapist Fiona Wallice, a charlatan, and a remorseless, self-obsessed one, busy peddling what she's fond of describing as her new "treatment modality. Therapy as Shock Treatment
He will somehow find time from his busy schedule to enjoy his golf.
To start with we haven't enough money, and secondly we're too busy.
The wharves and warehouses on the Floss were busy again, with echoes of eager voices, with hopeful lading and unlading.
The little man did not know, that time was wanted for imagination to make the roadway or riverway of a true story, unless we press to invent; his mind had been too busy on the way for him to clothe in speech his impressions of the passage of incidents at the call for them. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
Fox was busy soliciting funds for radical right candidates who hid from the public. Stu Kreisman: A Letter From a Progressive to President Obama
She knew Mommy was busy, so she decided to be a big girl and take a bath all by herself.
Of course, if she's busy reading or otherwise occupied, she sends the sprog in her place to do the necessary.
He has been kept busy behind a porous defence this season. Times, Sunday Times
Not surprisingly on such a hot afternoon, the river was very busy.
When not producing art of his own, Oliver was busy advancing the work of others.
A large terracotta pot planted with Busy Lizzie provides a fiery bright red display.
I've been so busy I haven't had a square meal in three days.
You won't be covering your ears from the lack of pleasantries coming out of the speaker, but if you get busy picking at a pesky hangnail, you won't even notice that Desmond is on.
While his partner had been busy with that job, Haig had driven pegs into the ground, marked out a grid and plotted the positions of the signals from his metal detector.
They keep me busy and take my mind off the demands of the day. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
There has been a busy start to polling in today's local elections.
Even now, with the incredibly busy life I lead, if I get time between appointments I will just go and poodle.
However, Paul Butler is never too busy to stop and enjoy the simple pleasure of gazing into the distance at dusk.
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. William Hazlitt
They lead a busy and colourful life on the campus.
We were soon led upstairs to the dining room which was fairly busy with both hotel residents and other diners.
He has been very busy and hasn't time to chase around.
I should get busy 'dyeing' - your results are fantastic!! A picture heavy Monday
Students are too busy having fun and learning how to get rich to join in the political machinations of their teachers. Times, Sunday Times
Life can be busy with many different roles and hats to put on and take off again.
The lack of organization among temporeros is integral to the country's busy fruit production and export business.
Jim's father got beyond running the business on his own,and employed someone to help him at busy times.
Get busy living or get busy dying. Stephen King
If one is called a busybody, it is a negative character assessment. Lynn Casteel Harper: The Elimination Of Busy: The Spiritual Discipline Of Being Present
If she gets busy she pages me and I go retrieve him.
It's a region already popular both with casual and mountain bikers who don't have to contend with busy traffic.
As the oil terminals sit in a valuable fishing area, the crew of the Lynx are kept busy monitoring the vast array of fishing dhows that emerge daily from the Shatt Al Arab waterway between Iraq and Iran.
But… well, she's either read my books wrong, or she was so busy trying to translate my bio into a series of how-to tips that she never read them at all.
The queen is in the formicarium now and seems quite busy exploring her new surroundings.
Not to bestir the busybodies at the FTC, but the limitations Time Warner and Cablevision place on their cable apps amount to an agreement not to compete. Cable, Innovative? You Don't Say!
Steven Sippila, skipper of the Sinikka, and his deckhand Scott Boyle have been busy this week preparing their equipment and bait for the busy 13-week season.
When not writing about art, craft, gardening, and fiber, Abigail is busy getting her hands dirty restoring a 14th century farmhouse in rural Tuscany. Inhabitat | Inhabitat
Employees usually taken on as temporaries to help with busy periods will be given permanent contracts.
The Charley Tsosie family would be busy, taking ritual sweat baths and preparing for their curing ceremonial. THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
Revenue was also busy cracking illegal cigarette and tobacco smuggling.
Indeed, Moulsworth vows to transmute the faulty model provided by the Biblical Martha, the archetypal busy housewife: Moulsworth plans to "dight" (or make ready) her "Inward house" (l. 19) and thus prepare an appropriate habitation for Christ. My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
A history like this and it took them 40 odd years to get rid of the Red Army; probably too busy wassailing to notice, I shouldn't wonder.
The complainant was an officious intermeddler, a busybody, the town scold, an anti-Christian activist named Darren Lund who had an axe to grind, and Andreachuk gave it to him. Ezra Levant: June 2008 Archives
When are the busy and slack periods for the potential trainees? Personnel Management: A New Approach
Donovan McNabb posted an update over on his Yardbarker blog about what he calls his busy time of year. Bleeding Green Nation
The new name to watch in Scottish publishing is Birlinn, which has been busy buying up imprints (notably Polygon) and is clearly intent on making its own mark as a publishing house of national importance.
It brings together juniors and infants on one site, rather than a quarter of a mile apart on opposite sides of busy Bag Lane.
Rearranging the gallery is one way to stay busy, and one that can result in quick sales.
Situated just off Filey's main thoroughfare, this proved to be a busy venue.
With such a busy working life and an attitude that embraces stress as a necessary ingredient of life in adland, how important is relaxation?
At the time he was busy mimeographing handouts about ordering constraints among syntactic transformations.
Somebody was so busy looking at the train indicator in the station this morning that they walked into me and kicked my ankle.
Sporting pursuits are still slotted into the busy lives of proudly self-made people. Times, Sunday Times
The physics of the venue make for an intimate and busy, buzzy atmosphere and, let's face it, a rather cramped stage.
But dreams, after all, are dreams, and as we are busy producing double-faced politicians, there are no messiahs around to translate dreams into realities.
When your toooo busy accepting $$$ from lobbyist, the welfare of the citizenry is nae important. Graham: Dems engaging in 'seedy Chicago politics'
The streets are busy, with small groups heading steadily southwards towards the nightclub.
In 1987, while the FDIC and FSLIC were busy closing every Bank and S&L in Texas, I of necessity made the conversion to Commercial Bankruptcy. The Volokh Conspiracy » A Modest Proposal for Bar Exam Reform:
It's the busy time for them to harvest their fields.
Whenever I mention playing football, he says he's too busy.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. John Lennon
Saturday night was especially busy; newsboys in the entertainment districts sold theatrical papers and early Sunday editions long after midnight.
He needn't have worried; we were all too busy soaking up the scenery.
All the women at present were busy knitting woollen garments; some were learners and did their work slowly and painstakingly. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
Libre ang isip ng mga bagay na walang kapararakan na ito at simulan ang constructively pagbibigay ng kontribusyon sa American pampulitika dialogo. Ideonexus.com »2,006» Abril
A vet today urged motorists to slow down after a dramatic rise in the number of cats getting knocked down on a busy stretch in Wickford.
Football clubs have been busy in the close season transfer market.
He was too busy talking to notice us come in.
Motorists will be urged to drive outside busy times and turn off their engines when idling. Times, Sunday Times
I ran out of patience with the busy lines with the voice that told me I was appreciated.
As you might expect, she expressed the typical busybodied leftist view that the Church needs to adopt pro-abortion and pro-gay marriage views in order to stay relevant: NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing. William Faulkner
Don't interrupt me when I am busy.
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
He needs a hobby to keep him busy and stop him from getting into mischief.
I'll be too busy to come to the meeting.
The ward was busy and Amy hardly had time to talk.
So this week I've had the triple whammy of being busy, edgy and suddenly noticing a few people around seem to be looking unexpectedly good.
I'm too busy to make my own content lately, obvs.
Possessing an impressive range of passes, he also weighed in with a couple of shots and overall he was a busy presence in the middle.
And busy Americans have never been fussy about the qualifications of even the most exotic panjandrum. Magic and Mayhem
It won't have escaped your notice that I've been unusually busy recently.
Armed police line both sides of the busy street that leads to the Interlagos track - but teams are taking no chances. The Sun
She was busy sketching out a palm tree at my art desk as we talked.
Ingrid was busy learning her lines for the next day's shooting.
The fact the exercise is a short burst really fit into my busy life. The Sun
Standard rooms overlook a busy road but those with sea view are quieter.
Employers are busy people and wading through hundreds of CVs is a time-consuming process.
She was now busy overseeing the completion of a new church with a quadrangle of almshouses and a school attached. Malory: The Life and Times of King Arthur's Chronicler
Worry is a total waste of time. It doesn't change anything. All it does is steal your joy and keep you very busy doing nothing.
As the Chinese New Year draws near, everyone is busy in shopping for the Spring Festival.
Hannah paced through the busy crowds towards a small shop that sold every item of clothing under the sun.
I think I've thought up an appropriate competitor name The Paper...you know, like The Rock, only wussier, but I haven't come up with any fake biographical information, a fake self-reported skill level, or anything like that, because I've been too busy...well, too lazy. My meager attempt to spice things up.
The Beast had been busy arguing that it needed a good six months more to mount a proper, lingering defence.
Some lines are busy express routes, others are branch lines that have barely any traffic. Times, Sunday Times
We're so busy that we have to farm out a lot of work.
That extension is busy right now. Can you hold?
Pianist-composer Childs is a hometown phenomenon busy carving out a career between the jazz and classical worlds.
He was too busy mispronouncing polysyllabic words, invading countries and getting mixed up about weapons of Mass Destruction to be able to show up and admit that "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" was his favorite Oscar-winning tune. Barack Obama, no one cares about your favorite Oscar song
No parent is going to bare their soul to an uninterested, cool, busy professional.
In seconds the crew had cleared the deck and only the deckhands required on this deck remained behind, busy at their posts.
My father, being a senior consultant in a busy hospital, dragged us around the wards to spread good tidings to patients and to munch the array of nibbles in the nurses' rooms.
She snuck a glance in the direction of the bar but Nathan was busy ordering their drinks.
F eature appearances are pending based on Costner's busy schedule. OurSports Central Baseball News
They are too busy for idle chatter. Times, Sunday Times
We are now working on a one delivery a day basis, with mail being extremely busy and personnel working under immense pressure.
I'm afraid I'm too busy - I'm in the midst of writing up a report.
There are those who question whether the current bruxism craze isn't simply the '90s version of the TMJ diagnosis that peaked in the' 70s -- a catchall disorder that once kept dentists busy. I Hear America Grinding
Families of busy mynahs chirruped, foraged for grasshoppers, and then trilled when they took wing as we approached.
Not so long ago, all six would have been busy at this hour fetching water from distant wells and lugging it back to the small subsistence farms, known as shambas, that dot rural western Kenya.
She found it difficult to tune herself to a busy life.
We are so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.
We grasp the poignant loneliness of the elevator attendant, sigh when Rhoda is hurt and squirm at the office busybody's interference.
Mary Beth had a busy legal practice in Los Angeles.
Mama pretended to busy herself with threading a needle, but I could tell that it was only show.
Look for a local ham operator to get very busy as phone lines jam for days and weeks to come.
What might surprise you, given that you can't even see it from the busy A176 which runs past it, is the lake.
Provided you according to aphotic skinned teens getting busy, that's one. We Blog A Lot

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