Sentence examples for he were preoccupied from inspiring English sources

All the time, it's as if he were preoccupied with some inward effort, which he thinks no one else sees — an effort of decency, of fitting in.

Maybe he's preoccupied.

I guessed he was preoccupied.

He was preoccupied with his painting.

And he was preoccupied by age.

He was preoccupied with other things.

He was preoccupied with his health, too.

He is preoccupied with being someone he can admire".

Instead, he is preoccupied with the prospective death of Belgium.

Meanwhile he is preoccupied with his literary and intellectual progress.

Andrée wrote that he was preoccupied with observing himself to determine whether he was afraid.