How to Use "preoccupied" with Example Sentences

1. For example , sometimes we drive the car on autopilot while being preoccupied with thoughts .
2. While the others were preoccupied with fighting , america strengthened its export markets at their expense .
3. Since 1990 europe has been almost continuously preoccupied by inter-governmental conferences and new treaties to tinker with its institutional architecture .
4. More optimistic analysts think china will stay preoccupied with economic development at home for at least two or three decades .
5. Much of the literature on post-capitalist economies is preoccupied with the problem of managing labor in the absence of capitalist bosses .