Used in a Sentence

busiest

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for busiest.

Editorial note

The claim for having the busiest bicycle street of the west is frankly ridiculous.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of busiest gathered in one view.

adjective

Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.

adjective

Engaged with or preoccupied by an activity or person.

adjective

Having much work to do; having much to get done.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for busiest.

adjective

Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.

adjective

Engaged with or preoccupied by an activity or person.

adjective

Having much work to do; having much to get done.

adjective

Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.

Example sentences

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The claim for having the busiest bicycle street of the west is frankly ridiculous.

2

A hectare in the furthest backwater of the jurisdiction is taxed at the same rate as one in the busiest urban center.

3

ATL is on of the worlds busiest airports with about 100 million passengers or about 250K a day.

4

Even in their busiest years, they didn't treat any common ailments with any degree of distributed variety.

5

Canada has the second-busiest ATC system in the world and it's run by a private for-profit company.

6

The articulated buses were used on the busiest routes, which mostly pass through poorer areas.

7

For 2005, the year the term Cyber Monday was coined, the busiest online shopping day of the year in the U.

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Thus all the cancelled flights for a week at the world's busiest airport.

9

Think about the impact of launching such an attack on Wall Street, or maybe at the world’s busiest airports, or at large utility plants.

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It is one of the busiest and most productive lines Metra operates.

11

It flew right over one of the largest/busiest airports in Malaysia.

12

There are usually much quicker ways to get in/out/through many tube stations but the signposted routes are the ones that can cope with the busiest periods.

Quote examples

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LAX then appears to be listed as fourth busiest in "30 busiest US airports by total passenger traffic".

2

[...] The Waal is Europe’s busiest river, [...]" Nice article, but hat's not its strongest paragraph.

3

According to Wikipedia: "In late 2005, after the holidays, ecommerce sites reported that the busiest shopping days usually were between December 5-15 in a given year.

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"A sausage lunch spot in downtown San Francisco called Showdogs apparently determined its busiest hour (between 12pm and 1pm) by using Motionloft sensors." They really needed Motionloft sensors to tell them that the busiest time for a downtown lunch spot would be Noon???

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use busiest in a sentence?

The claim for having the busiest bicycle street of the west is frankly ridiculous.

What does busiest mean?

Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.

What part of speech is busiest?

busiest is commonly used as adjective.