Example sentences for: preoccupation

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

  • The candidates for the Republican leadership are conveying a preoccupation not with solving the nation's problems but with protecting themselves individually and devouring each other.

  • Here Ellison uses Wright's preoccupation with interracial violence and graphic, near-surrealist detailing to provide the reader an ironic, ambiguous tale of a white boy, a moral innocent, coming of age.

  • But there's also this unobvious one: Beware your child's "excessive preoccupation with social causes, race relations, environmental issues, etc."

  • Thus, the title becomes equally appropriate as an umbrella for Anna's story, its consequences on her contemporaries, and the novel's preoccupation with the agrarian defection from that society of (Tolstoy's stand-in) Levin.

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


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