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.
  • Both teams were busy this week.
    — Dan Albano, Oc Register, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Teams stay busy but not aligned.
    — Sue Mysko, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Their busy streak isn’t over just yet.
    — Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • This is our busiest day of the year.
    — Eric Prisbell, Dallas Morning News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • And he’s kept busy off the court, too.
    — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Since then, life has been full – and busy.
    — Doug Dunbar, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Scroll down for a round-up of a busy week.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 22 May 2026
  • The rest of spring break will be just as busy.
    — Melissa Grzybowski, Austin American Statesman, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Spring is a busy time in the garden.
    — Becky Wern, Florida Times-Union, 7 Mar. 2026
  • And the schedule has been so very busy.
    — Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Sometimes the world is just too busy and loud!
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Schedules are fuller and life is busier.
    — NPR, 4 Apr. 2026
  • And in the meantime, what else keeps him busy?
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 16 May 2026
  • Which is not to suggest that the man doesn’t keep busy.
    — Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 12 June 2026
  • The park service said now is the busiest time for climbers.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 6 June 2026
  • This ought to be enough to keep you busy for a little while.
    — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Nedejkovic was busy in his first start in more than two weeks.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Just plop it in the machine and go on with your busy day.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Those early hours of the day are when your heart is the busiest.
    — Dr. Sanjay Bhojraj, CNBC, 4 June 2026
  • Back in town, this beloved pub gets busy after the lifts close.
    — Todd Plummer, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2019
  • And this isn't even the busiest time of the year for the airport.
    — Joe Taschler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2020

busy

2 of 2 verb
  • 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
  • Sessions are planned to busy our hands and calm minds, leaving plenty of time for walks and swims.
    — Freya Bromley, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Emma shook her head and busied herself with picking up her waders.
    — Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • For now, though, the staff will continue to busy itself with tasks like chasing elephants off the runway.
    — Allison Hope, CNT, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Wedding planning isn't the only thing keeping the Olympic gold medalist busy these days.
    — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 20 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • For the first 12 minutes, the Celtics busied themselves by snapping up free points.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Residents busied themselves with home repairs and thoughts of the future.
    — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2020
  • 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
  • Guests can busy themselves with everything from ice fishing to cooking and baking classes.
    — Sara Clemence, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2020
  • 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
  • But astronomers are now busying themselves preparing for the next visitor.
    — Nola Taylor Redd, Scientific American, 27 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For now, Erin has mostly stayed off social media and instead busied herself with friends and family.
    — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 23 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • While the battle carries on around Baú, the community busies itself with chores and pastimes.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Christmas music rings through every corner of the storage area as volunteers busy themselves, pushing bright red shopping carts down the aisles.
    — Asia Simone Burns, ajc, 22 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • This fall, lawmakers’ budget staff members will busy themselves with preparations for next year’s session, when the next two-year budget will be written.
    — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 2 July 2020
  • Ono spent the next few days busying himself with camping stoves, generators, and jerrycans, and paying little attention to the news.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • The other is that busying themselves with impeachment will allow Democratic leaders to avoid hard fights over what their own party stands for.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2017

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