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

The "noises, the bustling nature of a school – the busyness, all the classes walking around" make it a "real challenge" for those with sensory needs, she says.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2025

Adding to the busyness, Puts heavily features the chorus as a collective, omniscient narrator and the characters’ inner voices.

From New York Times • May 6, 2024

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

From Salon • Jan. 27, 2024

The actual work was done by the servants, of course, but the queen bee of all this busyness was indisputably Lady Constance.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood