busily engaged
Frequency: 5.02.1 per million words
Actively occupied with a task.
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Examples (10)
- The kitchen staff were busily engaged in preparing for the evening service.
- She was busily engaged in a phone conversation and didn't notice me arrive.
- Throughout the morning, the students remained busily engaged with their science experiments.
- He was too busily engaged in his work to take a break for lunch.
- When we visited the workshop, the craftsmen were busily engaged on a new commission.
- The engineers will be busily engaged in testing the new software all next week.
- I found my grandfather in the garden, busily engaged in planting his spring bulbs.
- The legal team is currently busily engaged with drafting the contracts.
- Despite the noise, the librarian remained busily engaged in cataloging new books.
- The children were busily engaged in a game of make-believe, oblivious to the world around them.