busyness

Example Sentences

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Siad compared his recruiting efforts to fishing: “In This busyness I feel like fisherman some time I cache quick , some time no fish.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Given his constant state of busyness, his studio is in a state of understandable clutter.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2025

When he gets runs, he is praised for being busy, but that busyness can become frenetic, especially at the start of his innings.

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2024

The problem lies in our society’s continued glorification of busyness and normalization of sleep deprivation.

From Salon • Jan. 27, 2024

I lie there, listening to the sound of Cathy’s urgent, cheerful busyness, and I think about the clothes on the side of the railway line and about Jess kissing her lover in the morning sunshine.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins