Sentence examples for preoccupied and from inspiring English sources

I've often been too preoccupied and cross to speak.

Janice Kelly thought that he seemed preoccupied and withdrawn.

I think I was a bit preoccupied, and a bit intense and a bit wobbly.

Lon Snowden says he found his son preoccupied and nursing a burden.

Like everybody else, I was preoccupied and distressed by the ruined life in Haiti.

But Ipswich gave him the subject with which he was to become both personally preoccupied and publicly identified: adultery.

Dad and Mom are preoccupied featherweights and no help at all.

/ A man who is preoccupied with and often vain about his clothes and manners; a dandy.

The nature and ultimate fate of the universe have preoccupied philosophers and scientists for centuries.

The women appear preoccupied, exhausted and tense.

These topics are much older than evolutionary theory itself, having preoccupied Aristotle and all subsequent biologists.