"busy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It was, Martin commented, hard to see the wreck for the Algerines: the ship looked more like a floating log covered with busy ants.
- The cart stood there, while Consecrated and soldiers dashed about like busy ants, doing a hundred and one last-minute things.
- Men were rushing about like busy ants at work.
- I am lying in the grass dazed by the sun and the busy ants, by the myriad humming galore of a river on a summer afternoon.
- Cars looked like busy ants moving purposefully down their trails.
- A wet loaf of bread, with busy ants crawling all over it.
- Nathaniel and Micah went back and forth like busy ants until the seats were piled high with pillows, and there were still plenty left on the bed.
- Now, instead of leaving, the Chinese were running about like an army of busy ants, all seemingly occupied with incomprehensible tasks.
- Six engineers scuttled out to attend to the Drake, looking for all the world like busy ants.
- But the nerves remained, jumping like trout in her stomach, crawling over the back of her neck like busy ants.
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