Examples of 'occupied himself' in a sentence

Meaning of "occupied himself"

occupied himself - This phrase describes someone engaging in an activity or task to keep themselves busy or mentally absorbed. It indicates that the person is focusing their attention and investing their time and energy in an endeavor, often to avoid idleness, boredom, or unproductive thoughts

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occupied himself
How the stranger occupied himself is unknown.
He occupied himself with the transmission of images to a distance.
After returning to his native land he occupied himself with natural philosophy.
There he occupied himself as an author and translator.
So when I was not out in the car he occupied himself in running the.
He occupied himself exclusively with chess.
He saw that the youth had also occupied himself by tidying the tent.
He has occupied himself in being civil to all the world.
During his six months of captivity Dumouriez occupied himself with literary pursuits.
He occupied himself with nothing.
Huth settled in London and occupied himself in forming his library.
Abegg occupied himself with photography and balloon excursions.
He later returned to Portugal and occupied himself with agriculture and his family.
He occupied himself with astrology.
In those days little Sasha had not yet occupied himself with commercial robbery.

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There he occupied himself with the contradictions and hopes of a socialist state.
Studies Leonardo da Vinci also occupied himself with.
Böckh also occupied himself with philosophy.
The rest of Logan 's life was spent in London, where he occupied himself with writing.
He mainly occupied himself with literature.
When he was not serving in church, Cyril occupied himself with heavy work.
From that time he occupied himself in lecturing and the publication of philosophical works.
In his years in Nordborg, however, Brorsen hardly occupied himself with astronomy any more.
He occupied himself contentedly in last position for the first three of four laps.
If been the boss I occupied himself you and Albright.
He occupied himself primarily with accounts of personalities and the historical development of specific problems.
At this point jobless, he occupied himself intensively with writing.
Dore occupied himself with illustrating books until before his demise in Paris following a brief illness.
He retired to Graz, where he occupied himself with literary work.
Costello occupied himself with gardening and displayed some of his flowers at local horticultural shows.
He eventually returned to France, and occupied himself with the teaching of taoism.
Buber also occupied himself at the beginning of the century with Christian mysticism.
Near the end of his life, Arlen mainly occupied himself with political writing.
He has also occupied himself with Islam and methodological questions in religious studies.
In later life Gerstenberg lost touch with literature, and occupied himself mainly with Kant 's philosophy.
My friend next occupied himself with the mark of the bullet in the wall.
Henry, essentially retired at this point, occupied himself by raising orchids.
Meanwhile Rethel occupied himself with the production of easel pictures and of drawings.
Educated at the University of North Carolina, he occupied himself as a planter and civic leader.
As before, he occupied himself with playing polo and he took up hunting.
Commerson returned to live at Châtillon-les-Dombes, where he occupied himself in creating a botanical garden in 1758.
Furthermore, he occupied himself with homeopathy and later also biology.
Ned Land, without waiting, occupied himself about the important dinner business.
He occupied himself with mathematics, astronomy, astrology, magic, mechanics, medicine, and philosophy.
About 1880 he settled in Leipzig and occupied himself with literary work and with teaching.
However, later, he occupied himself with improving his farmlands and rebuilding Teaninich Castle.
In 1790, he retired from political life and occupied himself of literature, publishing dramas and comedies.
After 1877 Ostwald occupied himself with the problem of chemical affinities and of slow chemical reactions.
From the mid-1880s, Yablochkov mostly occupied himself with problems of generating electric energy.
Mesdag himself occupied himself with the boats and the sea.

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