Sentence examples for are preoccupying from inspiring English sources
verb
To distract; to occupy or draw attention elsewhere.
- The father tried to preoccupy the child with his keys.
As with urban crime, failing urban schools are preoccupying countries the world over.
But it is the short-term budget woes that nearly all states are facing that are preoccupying elected officials.
While Syria, migration and Russia are preoccupying western governments, Israel and Palestine have been largely left to their own devices.
Some of the questions that are preoccupying Eliasson in his work these days include: What is the relationship between data and cognition?
Some of them are simply far-fetched — could it have been a U.F.O.? — while others reveal domestic anxieties that are preoccupying citizens of the internally riven state.
Long before an islet submerges, it will become uninhabitable as inland waters become brackish and sea-defences fail.So the legal implications of sinking islands are preoccupying environmental lawyers.
Alas, ministers are preoccupied.
All artists are preoccupied.
"They are preoccupied, pensive.
Their minds are preoccupied with oil.
