7 sentences with 'busy'

Example sentences and phrases with the word busy and other words derived from it.

• « The cool sea breeze caressed the faces of the sailors, who were busy hoisting the sails. »

• « First, the signal was busy; then the phone started ringing with no one answering. »

• « Simultaneously, the Soviets were busy extracting wealth and materials from their new puppets in Eastern Europe to help recover from their own war losses. »

• « The Spanish sent explorers and sailors who sought Asia by scouring the Americas, although they were also busy conquering the great empires of the Aztecs and Incas. »

• « She detested high-speed roads, but that day she drove on a busy California freeway. His sisters commented that it may have been the first time he had ever traversed a four-lane highway. »

• « When Julius Caesar was busy conquering Gaul some 700 years later, he found the Celts there writing in the Greek alphabet, which he had long ago learned from Greek colonies along the coast. »

• « While Hannibal was busy ravaging Italy, the Macedonian king Philip V allied with Carthage against Rome, a reasonable decision at the time because it seemed likely that Rome would lose the war. »

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7 sentences with 'busy'

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