Sentence examples for be preoccupied by from inspiring English sources

This year they will be preoccupied by an absent friend.

I can't fight it, and I can't let my team be preoccupied by it".

Instead, he will be preoccupied by the economic needs of the state and its political interests.

Great, so now when I watch Wolf Hall I'm going to be preoccupied by the thought of Mark Rylance's manhood sliding around in a tunnel of Sudocrem.

Piazza may not have slept well the night before, the lights may bother him, or he may be preoccupied by a problem at home.

This was a bullseye for Warne, who sometimes still appears to be preoccupied by winning the Ashes rather than just talking or writing about them.

Philosophers have long been preoccupied by gesture.

And he was preoccupied by age.

Jim Shepard has always been preoccupied by history.

Both are preoccupied by the present.

The state is preoccupied by economic worries.