preoccupy

You are more likely to be preoccupied by your own.

Yet both of these issues preoccupied him in his last years.

They say their jobs and the city's financial problems have preoccupied them.

Following are a few of the things, in addition to the economic plan, that preoccupied the Administration.

Would the question that preoccupied his mind damage the girl's?

By then they had all been preoccupied with the dreams.

He must have been preoccupied with his plans for the evening, she decided.

French foreign policy has been preoccupied with Germany ever since.

But she seemed tense and preoccupied most of the time.

She had been terribly serious and preoccupied the past few days.

But what preoccupies us is the environment we will end up in.

Each of his books has been preoccupied with a central theme.

The difficult economic environment is preoccupying many companies these days.

But at the moment he had other things to preoccupy him.

She preoccupied the attention in the same way as a snake would have done.

"Obviously they have been preoccupied with other issues - working all hours to get the schools open," he said.

He began to talk about the things that preoccupied him in his madness.

He had always been preoccupied with sexuality, violence and death.

It was the taste of death in his mouth that preoccupied him.

If only you'd tell me what it is that preoccupies you so.

For the last two centuries we have been preoccupied elsewhere.

Other problems preoccupied her now, such as how to get to a ship she could use to escape.

The book is now on hold, yet she says it continues to preoccupy her.

"She did seem a bit preoccupied the last time I talked to her.

I had to preoccupy myself with something, anything, to silence the voice in my head.