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How to use busily in a sentence

17 example sentences · adverb

Busily means in a busy manner; actively. Example: “Upon arriving at the site, they found several JCBs busily tearing down what was left of the old sheds.”

Examples of busily by meaning

adverbIn a busy manner; actively.

  • Look at the little fellows, mere bundles of fluff, paddling along so busily and sturdily.1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 5
  • Quite a crowd of townspeople turned out to see the train start, and several pressmen were busily engaged in taking notes and photographs.1949 November and December, “Notes and News: By Special Train to Llanfair”, in Railway Magazine, page 409

More sentences with busily

  • Upon arriving at the site, they found several JCBs busily tearing down what was left of the old sheds.From the entry JCB
  • I couldn't believe it when I saw the equipment that they were still using. Those machines were all dinosaurs, but they were busily cranking out production.From the entry dinosaur
  • “I am a gentleman,” he began slowly, his back still turned, and his fingers moving busily.2021, J. S. Emery, A Clockwork River, →ISBN. From the entry bend sinister
  • Their small supple forms slipped busily along the floor at dusk, continually perfecting their burrows.2020, Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman, Corsair (2021), page 442. From the entry muskrat
  • They could hear the ambulance now, mee-mawing busily outside on the prom.2010, Paul Magrs, Hell's Belles, →ISBN. From the entry mee-maw
  • This is a virtuoso vocabulist at work, performing busily, somewhat aggressively demonstrating his skill.2000 May, Frank Louis Cioffi, “‘An Anguish Become Thing’: Narrative as Performance in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest”, in James…. From the entry vocabulist
  • SOCIETY is busily preparing for a huge reception to Santa Claus.1901 December 8, the Chaperon [pseudonym], “What Society is Doing for Christmas”, in The Examiner, volume LXXIII, number 161, San…. From the entry Mme. Santa Claus
  • These two fluffbutts were busily waddling across the entrance to the apartment complex and coming very close to getting run over.2010 November 22, @Charix, “Da coons”, in Fur Affinity. From the entry fluffbutt
  • A philosopher, busily sorting the world into the blue and the unblue, tells us that some ink is blue.2000, Charles Travis, Unshadowed thought: representation in thought and language. From the entry unblue
  • While our teacher conducts a declension drill we busily draw jock straps and pushup bras on the statuary in our Living Latin textbooks.2019, Michael Mitchell, Final Fire: A Memoir. From the entry semper ubi sub ubi
  • Whether it was teaching, writing, or investing in relationships, Thea was busily and actively engaged in activity that she could feel good about.2011 October 1, Sarah Jobe, Creating with God: The Holy Confusing Blessedness of Being Pregnant, Paraclete Press, →ISBN. From the entry purpose
  • A lot of Senners went to the Con (and had a blast!) are busily reporting in on the events to their mailing list sibs.1998 April 9, holl...@mailexcite.com, “Re: Where Is Everyone?”, in alt.tv.sentinel (Usenet). From the entry Senner
  • I clenched my pipe in my right fist and poked at the dottle busily with various fingers, first one then another, of my left hand.1981, John Gardner, Freddy's Book, Abacus, published 1982, page 38. From the entry dottle
  • He began to charge a longstemmed pipe busily and in silence, then, pausing with his thumb on the orifice of the bowl, looked again at me significantly.2009, James Hamilton, Life and Art: The Creative Synthesis in Literature, page 70. From the entry longstemmed
  • When I was a child, I remember my mom busily preparing for a dinner party, saying, "If you are not going to help me, then at least don't unhelp me."2000, Mary Ann Froehlich, Peggysue Wells, What to Do When You Don't Know What to Say. From the entry unhelp

Meaning of busily

  1. adverb In a busy manner; actively.

Full definition of busily

Questions about busily in a sentence

How do you use busily in a sentence?
Busily is used as an adverb. For example: “Upon arriving at the site, they found several JCBs busily tearing down what was left of the old sheds.”
What is a short sentence with busily?
“SOCIETY is busily preparing for a huge reception to Santa Claus.”
What does busily mean?
Busily means in a busy manner; actively.

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