Examples of 'preoccupy' in a sentence
Meaning of "preoccupy"
To preoccupy means to absorb someone's interest or attention completely, making them unable to think of anything else. It is commonly used in the context of worries, concerns, or occupying one's thoughts
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- To distract; to draw attention elsewhere.
- To worry or concern (someone) so as to distract them.
- To occupy or take possession of beforehand.
How to use "preoccupy" in a sentence
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Preoccupy them all as you would children.
You have not to preoccupy yourself with that.
I preoccupy myself reading books about the future.
A number of political questions continue to preoccupy us.
So then preoccupy her with your charm.
It is the world that adults preoccupy themselves with.
I needed to preoccupy them with a bomb to enable my escape.
And when all else failed to preoccupy my mind.
I need to preoccupy them with a bomb to enable my escape.
And trials can easily preoccupy our minds.
Heroes do not preoccupy themselves with what could have been.
There are many similarities in the issues that preoccupy us.
People who preoccupy themselves with other peoples lives.
The things that preoccupy one.
Preoccupy me with the meaningless.
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The resulting grievances preoccupy people.
May everyone preoccupy themselves with dying from moment to moment.
Plan on at night and no preoccupy enough it.
Preoccupy my hunger.
He has much to preoccupy him.
This may preoccupy you and keep you from other matters.
I show in my movies thoughts and situations that preoccupy my mind.
Some people only preoccupy themselves with the sensual mind.
These subjects and others are open questions and preoccupy public opinion.
In our civilization we do not preoccupy ourselves with perfecting the motor centre.
It is clear from this starting premise that the same questions preoccupy us.
I needed to preoccupy them.
Have we simply failed to find the answers to the questions that preoccupy us.
That search for value will preoccupy my successors and all delegations.
Perhaps that is why a formally nonexistent animal continues to preoccupy upland dwellers.
You preoccupy me.
Those were fundamental questions that continued to preoccupy civil society organisations.
Preoccupy yourself with another task in the yard while watching your pet.
This is why the proud preoccupy themselves with looking down on others.
And we need to reflect on the two anxieties that preoccupy us today as a people.
Such influences preoccupy in particular our partner organisations who work on gender and food sovereignty.
During this journey the danger into which we were heading did not preoccupy my mind.
But it is the software which will preoccupy our engineers in the coming years.
They come out of a genuine interest concerning the themes that preoccupy the author.
After retirement they preoccupy themselves with equally pointless activities as they wait for death.
You can listen to only the music or you can preoccupy yourself more with it.
I lament to preoccupy it, to see was needing them to me.
The negligence and mistreatment of children are even more serious issues that preoccupy our hosts.
The Holocaust does not appear to preoccupy the Communist authorities.
The situation in the Middle East continues to preoccupy us.
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This fear came more and more to preoccupy Orwell.
Tragic things … preoccupy other people very well.
This aquatic complex offers many popular activities that will preoccupy children in Budapest.
This is what should preoccupy us, the peoples of the world.
