Sentence examples for * preoccupied in from inspiring English sources

"We wanted to keep the police preoccupied in different places," Mr. Obradovic said.

Everyone was preoccupied, in just the way we usually call innocence.

They are all brief, charming, funny, and preoccupied in a postmodern way with the burdens and complications (and pleasures) of writing fiction.

The defenders were so preoccupied in raising their hands to tell the officials the play was offside that they gave Magee some space.

They are preoccupied, in other words, with learning how to make those lens-size blobs more efficiently — not with turning them into hamburgers or meatballs.

Mostly painted in oil on wood panels, his landscapes are largely preoccupied in capturing the muted moods of sky and water.

Preoccupied in other directions, the Sultan did not send another force into Arabia until 1811, when he consigned to Muḥammad ʿAlī Pasha, the virtually independent viceroy of Egypt, the task of crushing the "heretics".

The violence in the Middle East has preoccupied Jews in New Jersey since it flared in late September, said David Mallach, assistant executive vice president of the United Jewish Federation of MetroWest, which sponsored the forum.

The corruption scandal involving a regional boss has preoccupied China in the months before its once-in-a-decade transition of power.

The corruption scandal involving a regional boss has preoccupied China in the months before its once-in-a-decade transition to power.

In this case, it seems clear the theme is one that preoccupied her in the making of the Rolex Learning Center, a university building in which there are no walls, just an undulating landscape intended to promote chance meetings between students and disciplines.