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Sentence count:164+4Posted:2016-11-13Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: bemuseddeep in thoughthauntedlostobsessedtaken upSimilar words: preoccupationoccupyoccupantoccupationoccurjupitercuppieMeaning: [‚prɪ'ɑkjəpaɪd /-ɒkjʊ-]  adj. 1. deeply absorbed in thought 2. having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something. 
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31. Under Anne, High Churchmen became preoccupied with trying to eradicate the practice of occasional conformity.
32. But today with his mind too preoccupied to work he seemed quite unable to keep his hands off it.
33. If Cullam had been in a fit state to observe behaviour he might have thought the chief inspector bored or preoccupied.
34. Alison had entered the room, but he was too preoccupied to notice.
35. Yet the kind of liberty which preoccupied western artists was mostly individual freedom.
36. Tavett was too preoccupied with his fear that Wickham believed him to be the murderer to form any judgments.
37. They were looking on things new born, it seemed, while he was preoccupied with that which was dying.
38. Well yes, Angie had been very busy and preoccupied with the wedding preparations, naturally, but she had been happy.
39. However, the government has not been so preoccupied with accountability procedures as appeared to be the case in the early 1980s.
40. Fenn was too preoccupied with his own thoughts to notice.
41. Sexology and psychology throughout the twentieth century has been preoccupied with heterosexuality's problem - women.
42. As the audience are too preoccupied to buy any drinks, the barman and five barmaids dance on the bar throughout.
43. They are often shy, fragile, and preoccupied with feelings of self-doubt.
44. Science fiction has been preoccupied with such matters for years.
45. Preoccupied, they failed to notice that something had changed about Broadstairs.
46. What preoccupied him in the print was the chalet, its perfect simplicity.
47. Up to this point in our discussion we have been preoccupied with the mechanics of the communication process.
48. With Thatcher running amok through the welfare state, lobby groups are preoccupied defending what was once thought unassailable.
49. But they worry that more reforms could be thwarted by a few workers who seem preoccupied with exerting their authority over patients.
50. All but a couple of the bidders were too preoccupied to notice the latecomers.
51. On their first vacation alone after Helen was born, Mike, not Jennifer, was guilty and preoccupied with the baby.
52. Most Russians are preoccupied with matters close to home, their economic conditions in particular.
53. He was far too preoccupied with his own marital difficulties to give any thought to his friend's problems.
54. David Batty is one of them,(www.Sentencedict.com) but he is more preoccupied with fighting off an ankle injury.
55. Modigliani did not gossip, he was too preoccupied and always discreet about his love affairs.
56. Fenella was seated next to Inchbad, who patted her hand and said she was a pretty little thing, but seemed preoccupied.
57. He seemed preoccupied, hardly looking at her as he got undressed.
58. Unlike many of the writers of the period, Brooke-Rose is not overly preoccupied by morality in her early fiction.
59. The arguments which thus preoccupied the Standing Committee divided along predictably partisan lines.
60. Had she been too preoccupied with butlers, with introductions, with orchestration, with champagne?
More similar words: preoccupationoccupyoccupantoccupationoccurjupitercuppiepietydriedcare ofalliedpiecepiercesoccerlie downmarriedmoreoverratifiedfigure outincipienta piece ofbe aware ofaccusehorrifiedgo to piecesrecipientjustifiedsatisfiedtake care of
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