Sentence examples for a preoccupied air from inspiring English sources
Each morning, he stepped out of the elevator with a preoccupied air, nodded wordlessly if you were just coming down the hall, and closed himself in his office.
Equipment: sneakers, jeans, a polo shirt, and a purposeful, slightly preoccupied air (Yes, I have important business here).
He had the aloof, preoccupied air of a man in the back of a chauffeured limousine.
Binney, who is six feet three, is a bespectacled sixty-seven-year-old man with wisps of dark hair; he has the quiet, tense air of a preoccupied intellectual.
A preoccupied future employer.
The impasse matters little to a preoccupied White House.
Trump is what Kendall describes as a "preoccupied dad".
When he's tired, his expression has a preoccupied and melancholy cast.
A girl, a pair of new roller skates, a preoccupied parent.
She hopes to renew interest in her husband's case in a preoccupied world.
"Not so far," he said, in a preoccupied but not unfriendly voice.
