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

"There was a busyness before. It is only hitting people now."

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2024

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

From Salon • Jan. 27, 2024

The busyness that went on in the island, the bee-keeping and the rook-scaring and the ploughing with oxen: for these you must look in the Lutterell Psalter, where they are beautifully drawn.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White