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

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

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2024

Babies do not arrive on anyone’s schedule, and the busyness of labor and delivery units can wax and wane accordingly.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2024

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

From Salon • Jan. 27, 2024

If he was lonely before, he didn’t know it because the noise he kept up, the roaring, the busyness, protected him from knowing it.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison