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.