(1) When I walk in, he is busily supervising the soundtrack that will play at the following night's red-carpet event.
(2) On the diplomatic front, Abe is busily wooing his Asian neighbours.
(3) This time, the war going on is among the gGrocers are busily slashing prices to try to compete with the growing threat of the low-cost operators Aldi and Lidl.
(4) The O’Reilly cases, meticulously reported by The New York Times , were known to management while the Murdochs were busily drawing up a new contract for the blustery, harassing host.
(5) Katrantzou herself dresses uniformly in black – in her serene London studios, where quiet seamstresses in neon and pastels snip busily at tables, hers seems to be the only shadow.
(6) It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre …” I don’t think this Ukip poster creators would be insulted by the Enoch Powell comparison Powell foresaw an unchecked inflow of black immigrants creating civil war; this poster tells us absolutely the same thing about the people headed our way, it claims, across borderless Europe.
(7) Even McDonald's in the UK has busily revamped its offer – its eggs are free-range, it uses organic milk and its adverts constantly remind you that carrot sticks are on offer (one of your five-a-day, kids!).
(8) And it may not be the hope-filled optimists who right now are busily talking about a better future here in the Science Centre.
(9) While we were busily getting dressed up, playing lots of characters and arguing about the content of the show, Felix just played one character per episode.
(10) Statisticians busily scanning the permutations reckoned defeat by three or four goals would be enough to bring other third-placed rivals back into contention, so considering Northern Ireland could have easily been looking at such a scoreline at half-time they must have been pleased to turn round only a goal down.
(11) The career courier may be a thing of the past – nowadays it’s increasingly common for couriers to earn their money from two or three jobs, enjoying the freedom of the road three or four days a week, supplementing this with the odd evening of bar work, and otherwise busily building up their portfolio as a photographer, or frame-builder, or sommelier, or writer.
(12) He writes: The FTSE is busily confounding bulls and bears alike, swinging higher one week and then sharply lower the next, as the post-2009 trend fizzles out.
(13) But 2,400 miles to the west, in Las Vegas, Sanetti's staff at the NSSF was busily putting the finishing touches to preparations for the largest trade show of new guns and ammunition in the land.
(14) And the crime is still very much in progress, with our respective governments busily clearing the way for new coalmines and new oil pipelines.
(15) For its part, Tokyo says it wants to talk, but is busily boosting its military and security capabilities and alliances.
(16) I know this much: while making the documentary, as I busily rewrote bits of script, suggested locations, worried about plane noise and changing light, advised the cameraman on angles and sternly told the director what I thought the ending should be, I prayed they would be thinking: "It's nice that she cares", rather than: "Christ, it's no wonder she sympathises with the old battleaxe she's talking about."
(17) With Sheen such a shoo-in for the lead, producers will now be busily searching for an actor who looks like 2,500 square miles of spilt crude oil.
(18) Users have been busily posting examples on Twitter and other social media.
(19) The court case is still pending; she and Manit are busily considering alternative ways to screen their work in Bangkok.
(20) 10.10am: Barry Glendenning's paper view has arrived to round up the Fourth Estate's perspective this morning: In the Mirror, Oliver Holt is busily fighting John Terry's corner, claiming that the former skipper deserves credit, not opprobium, for being the only England player prepared to speak out about the "spartan regime they have been living under for the last five weeks".
Bustle
Definition:
(v. i.) To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.
(n.) Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement.
(n.) A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure.
Example Sentences:
(1) A block further sits the Museum of Chocolate, joining the avant-garde of luxury chocolatiers that seem the hallmark of every bustling metropolis these days.
(2) The flat is opposite Covent Garden tube station in the heart of London, and a stone's throw from the hustle and bustle of Leicester Square.
(3) Commuters streaming into the bustling streets of the capital Kuala Lumpur earlier in the morning were overwhelmingly black-clad, while state television aired recitations from the Qur’an and showed photos of the victims.
(4) Karachi is a bustling business hub of more than 16 million people.
(5) Like most provincial towns around Russia , Kirov is far from the hustle and bustle of Moscow's political life.
(6) And, among several Hamlets on film, my favourite remains Gregory Kozintsev's 1971 version , which reminded us that Hamlet is only one figure in a bustling, hyperactive court.
(7) Poundsavers, on the other hand, looks large and bustling.
(8) The city's huge and priceless cultural heritage, a legacy of its medieval status as an African equivalent to Oxford or Cambridge, complete with bustling university, was little known in the outside world, with even the French, Mali's colonial rulers until 1960, carrying away some manuscripts to museums but doing little to unearth the full story behind them.
(9) Photograph: Alamy A great place to while away an afternoon, enjoying the tranquillity of the gardens, which make a stark contrast to the usual hustle and bustle of Delhi.
(10) Lee was a founding member of the governing People’s Action party and is credited with transforming Singapore from a sleepy Asian entrepot into a bustling and wealthy financial hub.
(11) There is colour and bustle in Chinatown, with its handsome temples and excellent food, but otherwise Singapore feels like it’s been scrubbed to within an inch of its life.
(12) The forward bustled in, stealing the ball and holding off the centre-half as he attempted to wrest it back, before ripping a glorious shot from a horribly tight angle into the far top corner as Ben Foster edged out to smother.
(13) With its bleating goats and vegetable patches, the centre is an oasis of rural tranquillity compared with the hustle and bustle of Goma down the road.
(14) Meanwhile, the bones that have just been confirmed as those of Richard III – the last Plantagenet king, the last English monarch to die on a battlefield, whose death ushered in the upstart Tudors – lay quietly in a calm room on the second floor of the Leicester University library, unknown to many of the students bustling in and out of the building.
(15) Even so, a free society requires an independent press: turbulent …enquiring…bustling…and free.
(16) Throw in the culture and hustle-bustle of London with a bit of the modern architecture of Jersey City, and the city would be even better.
(17) On a recent afternoon dozens of children could be seen racing past a multicoloured government creche towards a bustling main square.
(18) Their first shelter was a dingy basement in a slum far from São Paulo's bustling financial centre.
(19) But as a result of that, Ukip can afford its own office, which gives the area a political bustle that might at any moment turn into a blazing row.
(20) Money talks, especially in the bustle of an Indian bazaar.