Sentence examples for been preoccupying from inspiring English sources
verb
To distract; to occupy or draw attention elsewhere.
- The father tried to preoccupy the child with his keys.
Read the press material, however, and you at least discover which stories have been preoccupying him.
That question has been preoccupying plenty of funds that got burned on their real-estate investments during the crisis.
The question of whether blue light is damaging has been preoccupying phototherapists and dermatologists for a while.
This question has been preoccupying me since my return from a trip through that quintessentially remote Central Asian land.
He observes a host of customs that his parents taught him years ago, and many of the obscure facts that preoccupy him have been preoccupying him for ages.
But it is the outlook for China which has been preoccupying investors recently, given the country is the driving force for much of the global economy.
Philosophers have long been preoccupied by gesture.
Labour has been preoccupied elsewhere.
Jim Shepard has always been preoccupied by history.
Candidates for office had been preoccupied with the subject.
Then, too, he has been preoccupied with other things.
