The mind busies itself in contemplating the results, and the act appears but a circumstance, a necessary one perhaps, but one on which it is unnecessary to dwell.
Free criticism busies itself with ideas, and therefore is always theoretical.
To travel is rule the first with which the Abiturient busies himself; that is, in which he seeks to sound the depths, and explore the regions of the desired freedom.
MR BLY passes out, and MR MARCH busies himself in gathering up his writing things preparatory to seeking his study.
One who meddles; one who interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no concern; an officious person; a busybody.
A man who busies himself with affairs which properly belong to women.
He busies himself for a moment adjusting the reading desk; then turns toward the audience, gripping the desk steadily, and waits a moment more for the stir to subside.
He busies himself with the glasses) No, no, We won't wage combat over this.
She busies herself with many things which hitherto have not concerned her.
He returns to the desk, sits, and busies himself with his writing, keeping his grieved face from her view.
One little committee busies itself with the setting, another with the structure, another with the comic characters, another with the songs that are interspersed and so on.
Simon goes up to plants, andbusies himself trimming them.
Nevertheless, he who busies himself with ethics as science must study them critically and strive to estimate justly their true significance.
Without any boundary-pad, with no guiding mark for the capacity of the cell, shebusies herself straightway with the provisioning.
In each new abode, the mother busies herself first of all with the more important sex.
But both are satirical in substance, though the Menippee is almost wholly political, and Regnier busies himself with social and moral subjects only.
Theorizing proper is not the purpose of this mode of consideration, although no doubt it frequently busies itself with abstract principles and categories, and may give way to this tendency without being aware of it.
While this is going on, the male bird busies himself with the food-matters?
When able to shift for themselves, they are entrusted to the care of the male, while the female busies herself in preparing for the second brood.
The part that is professedly "uninventable" shrinks continuously the more assiduously criticism busies itself with the Gospels; and the word can at present apply only to side-issues and matters of no importance.
He busieshimself with all things between earth and heaven.
It busiesitself in saving all nature and all society as well.
It may be the vulgar part of human nature which busies itself with the semblance and doings of living sovereigns; it is its nobler part which busies itself with those of the dead.
SOPHY (busies herself on the other side of the stage).
During this time, Martin, a miner from the north, busies himself hacking to pieces on the table a huge quarter of beef.
Sitting on the ground close to us, he busieshimself rolling a cigarette between brown, nicotine-stained fingers.
While she busies herself cutting the bread and making the tea, he opens a portmanteau, takes out a letter, and begins writing hurriedly.
He busies himself stamping some letters for the post; while she stands by staring at him helplessly, the check lying under her nerveless hand.
So Robert wisely lets the matter drop, and busies himself with the card-basket.
Bernhard is a fool to leave this woman here while he busies himself, or thinks he busies himself, with politics in Berlin.
As a science it busies itself with developing a priori the idea of Education in the universality and necessity of that idea, but as an art it is the concrete individualizing of this abstract idea in any given case.
The amateur busies himself with an art, a science, or a trade, without having gone through any strict training in it.
The Reflective stage busies itself with the relation of dogmas to each other, and with the search for the grounds on which their necessity must rest.
The reflection thatbusies itself with these things results in what is called the philosophy of religion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "busies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
