Sentence examples for been otherwise occupied from inspiring English sources

"I've been otherwise occupied," Clinton said with a laugh.

It's especially frustrating given the recent upswing in Jay-Z's rapping — the Kanye West collaboration "Watch the Throne" reinvigorated the m.c., who had been otherwise occupied with buying homes and basketball teams.

But Cincinnati has been otherwise occupied this spring, since the fatal shooting of an unarmed 19-year-old black man, Timothy Thomas, by a policeman, Officer Steven Roach, on April 7 and the ensuing riots.

He testified that he had been otherwise occupied on many of the days that he and MacMillan had supposedly had sex; in one case, he produced newspaper stories showing that he had been making a speech in Stettler at a time that MacMillan had claimed he was forcing himself upon her in Edmonton.

And the United States is otherwise occupied.

By night, he was otherwise occupied.

India and Pakistan should perhaps be grateful that he is otherwise occupied.

And Jerry Manuel is otherwise occupied, for the moment.