Sentence example with the word 'preoccupy'

preoccupy

absorb, beset, drive, engross the mind, grab, immerse, make free with, obsess the mind, preengage, subjugate

Definition v. engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively

Last update: October 31, 2015


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He realized that in Napoleon sentiment never got the better of reason, that as a matter of fact he had never intended his proposed " grand enterprise " seriously, and had only used it to preoccupy the mind of the tsar while he consolidated his own power in central Europe.   [Please select]

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Other friends would come in and preoccupy her mind and heart.   [Please select]

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The naturalists of to-day are in possession of a formula with which we must always preoccupy ourselves; in other words, there are natural sciences.   [Please select]

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