Example sentences for: preoccupation

How can you use “preoccupation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Your relentless preoccupation with Clinton and Monica in Flytrap Today and elsewhere has finally pissed me off.

  • In the purely visual sphere, style has been a national preoccupation from the Renaissance masters such as Michelangelo and Leo­nardo da Vinci to the grandiose cinematographic fantasies of Fellini and Visconti in the modern era.

  • And while we're at it, isn't it time to jettison all this anal-retentive preoccupation with a balanced budget?

  • Some criticize her "preoccupation with image," but others call image-control essential to the job.

  • Vaughan's preoccupation leads him to not only ponder the sexually charged road deaths of the famous (James Dean, Jayne Mansfield, Albert Camus), but to hang around accident sites, photographing them and later replicating the contorted postures of the victims in his trysts with prostitutes.


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