Sentence examples for was otherwise occupied from inspiring English sources

By night, he was otherwise occupied.

Jimmy couldn't read, so none of us would unless he was otherwise occupied.

Beard's husband promised he would stay with Blaise when Beard was otherwise occupied.

"Sometimes, we would ask for coffee and George was otherwise occupied," the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said.

On New Year's Eve, while others were partying, Mr. Ng was otherwise occupied, as a later diary entry showed: "I embraced the dusted classic during the countdown.

You can't keep them going if you're not free in the afternoons and, by this time, Joan Bakewell was otherwise occupied.

And the United States is otherwise occupied.

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

And Jerry Manuel is otherwise occupied, for the moment.

It turned out, however, that the guerrillas were otherwise occupied.

Too bad the Giants' Michael Strahan will be otherwise occupied.