I asked Willy, who huddled on the bench next to me, industriously picking his nose.

His physical posture, crouched closely over the keyboard as he picks industriously at individual keys, gives an appearance of intensity to even his casual phrases.

Rincewind looked back at the tiny figure, which was industriously picking its nose.

An interesting feature of the lake is that leaves are not allowed to float on the lake, which is ensured by the birds which industriously pick them up as soon as they drop into the lake surface.

Conina picked industriously at the splinter.