Sentence examples for that preoccupied me from inspiring English sources

"Envisioning my mother in bed with anyone, male or female, was not something that preoccupied me.

"Vichy was expressing itself, quietly but vehemently, on the subject that preoccupied me: the precise location of the center of pain in its relation with the past".

I have been growing food there for a mere half-decade, and until reading Caroline Foley's history of allotments, the questions that preoccupied me were rather basic.

Anyone could tell you that a photograph such as the one of my grandfather trussed in a cloak and white wig, watched by bewildered crows, represented the point at which life becomes a novel and a novel becomes a life, but as I sat down to write my second book, it was New York that preoccupied me.

It was about growing up, developing, worrying whether she fit in... all the things that preoccupied me at the time, and none of the things I'd ever seen in an actual book.

But those aren't the things that preoccupy me.

I'm not sure a male voice could have successfully examined the minutiae of female interactions that preoccupy me here.

Most of it goes in the bin, but I find I return again and again to the things that preoccupy me.

Most of it gets binned, but I find I return again and again to the things that preoccupy me and eventually I begin to see what the book might be about.

The one that preoccupies me most has to do with the way it reflects the fundamental inequity of the climate crisis itself – and that core question of whose security is ultimately valued in our lopsided world.

This is a question that has preoccupied me as I watched the tensions between Kampala and Soroti – often expressed in off-the-record comments made by local leaders.