Sentence examples for preoccupy a from inspiring English sources

Card games, videos, pool and Internet can only preoccupy a certain amount of their leisure time.

HOLIDAY celebrations and gift buying will preoccupy a lot of people this month.

In a sense, these are strange things to preoccupy a poet laureate, who, by his very taking of the job, asserts that inspiration is either reliable or unnecessary.

So naturally it has preoccupied a European intellectual like Benedict.

A LOUD, friendly argument was preoccupying a table at Bella Blu on the Upper East Side.

In other eras, a dry and technical debate might have preoccupied a few constitutional cognoscenti.

Three years ago, one of the debates that preoccupied a certain stripe of hip-hop obsessive was the one over hashtag rap.

When he appeared preoccupied, a Trooper challenged him.

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

A waiter, preoccupied with a former "Saved by the Bell" star at a nearby table, briefly materialized only to sweep away a third-full bottle of wine.

(Then, he added that he had been preoccupied with a graduation ceremony and a visit to injured municipal employees).