Sentence examples for we were preoccupied with from inspiring English sources

We often forget where we put our house keys because we were preoccupied with something else (absent-mindedness).

"While we were preoccupied with arming our military with high-tech weapons, we have not prepared ourselves against asymmetrical-weapons attack by the North".

It owes its coinage to a domestic rival, rugby, whose proponents were fighting a losing battle over the football brand around the time that we were preoccupied with a more sanguinary civil war.

We were preoccupied with repeatedly reeling our jaw up from the floor: The Lower Fifth Avenue duplex penthouse had balconies so large that one guest remarked, "You could fit Occupy Wall Street up here and not notice".

Re "Plan to Boost Afghan Forces Splits Advisers" (front page, Sept. 27) and "Obama at the Precipice," by Frank Rich (column, Sept. 27): Sadly, we will never recapture the years squandered in first defeating the Taliban and then letting that victory slip away while we were preoccupied with Iraq.

Right now, we feel like we're doing the best we can; looking back, we were preoccupied with the wrong thing or unnecessarily postponed the most important part.

"We're preoccupied with achieving the American dream".

We are preoccupied with repairs, restorations, reparations, reformations — attempts to redo or reconceive the past.

Gardeners strive endlessly to partner plants together, then nature throws up something brilliant while we're preoccupied with the effort.

Here at the magazine, we're preoccupied with the inner workings of the language: words, of course; also syntax — also, punctuation.

The sad fact is that we in the developed world are all less and less attached to the world, because we are preoccupied with our personal archipelagos.