Sentence examples for look busy from inspiring English sources

Even the noodle would snap to and look busy.

In other words, he says, they try to look busy.

In this maelstrom, politicians do their best to look busy.

Not that learning to look busy isn't valuable.

A scattering of volunteers scurried around her, trying to look busy.

Successful collectors need to look busy at their road-clearing tasks.

For at least 10 minutes, a civil servant can actually look busy.

Someone said, "John Updike's coming," in the manner of, "Jesus is coming, everyone look busy".

If you venture in and think the galleries look busy you are likely to be right.

It's easy to look busy on environmental issues; making real, intelligent, unpopular changes is vastly harder.

Or the officious gimp with a clip-board desperately trying to look busy.