- a busy life.
- a busy man.
- a busy painting.
- a busy seaport.
- a busy street.
- a fussy design.
- a very busy week.
- an interfering old woman.
- bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself.
- busy about other people's business.
- busy with her work.
- her line is busy.
- kept getting a busy signal.
- receptionists' telephones are always engaged.
- She busies herself with her butterfly collection.
- the lavatory is in use.
- too busy to eat lunch.