Sentence examples for preoccupied in from inspiring English sources

"We wanted to keep the police preoccupied in different places," Mr. Obradovic said.

Everyone was preoccupied, in just the way we usually call innocence.

They are all brief, charming, funny, and preoccupied in a postmodern way with the burdens and complications (and pleasures) of writing fiction.

The defenders were so preoccupied in raising their hands to tell the officials the play was offside that they gave Magee some space.

They are preoccupied, in other words, with learning how to make those lens-size blobs more efficiently — not with turning them into hamburgers or meatballs.

Mostly painted in oil on wood panels, his landscapes are largely preoccupied in capturing the muted moods of sky and water.

There is so little here to frighten and preoccupy, in fact, that midway through the novel the reader's sense of suspense turns inward, away from the motivations of the young governess and toward the motivations of the author himself.

"The first Anne meets a man who says they kissed and she can't remember; she's preoccupied, but in control," Ms. Huppert said.

The program was a slightly augmented version of the cabaret show Ms. Cook brought to Feinstein's at Loews Regency last April, in which she sang 11 new songs, none by Stephen Sondheim, whose music has preoccupied her in recent years.

Structure has preoccupied me in every project I have undertaken since, and, like Mrs. McKee, I have hammered it at Princeton writing students across four decades of teaching: "You can build a strong, sound, and artful structure.

They were all topics I was preoccupied with in my life.