Sentence examples for preoccupy and from inspiring English sources

And, of course, like nearly every one of the controversies that preoccupy and bedevil the Church — abortion, stem-cell research, contraception, celibacy, marriage and divorce and affectional orientation — it's about sex.

A moment such as the death of the Princess of Wales can move, preoccupy and unite a nation in a way that an election or a parliamentary dispute cannot.On the other side of this coin is also one of monarchy's greatest drawbacks, the fact that these human beings are protected and selected by a privilege and a hereditary principle that can engender disloyalty.

Other things, parties, school work and broken hearts have a way of taking over, things that won't be of import tomorrow can preoccupy and divert your attention -- and poof, you've forgotten to check in with yourself, to ask yourself if you like the way things are going, if you want what is happening to happen?

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Janice Kelly thought that he seemed preoccupied and withdrawn.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.

All five siblings went through tertiary education, and Smith is preoccupied – and desperately worried – by the state of education today.

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

Even Boston closer Jonathan Papelbon admitted to being preoccupied and unfocused while being bludgeoned by the Yankees on Friday night.