preoccupy

“They” want to “stop us from talking about subjects that preoccupy you,” he argued.

To preoccupy this ground, therefore, seemed an important step.

On a first reading, the pathetic passages preoccupy the reader, and he is cheated out of an alms in the shape of sympathy.

He refers, for proof of his statements, mostly to English documents, and does not try to preoccupy your mind.

The Government should preoccupy itself largely with this matter of assimilation: for the process is not complete.

She expostulated earnestly with him on the folly of allowing money cares and ambitions to preoccupy him.