Preoccupation has 5 syllables and the stress is on the fourth syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. | |
| 2. | My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?' | |
| 3. | Preoccupation with sex is the basis of all mental activity. | |
| 4. | Sami had a strange preoccupation. | |
| 5. | Don't open your mouth, and your physiognomy demonstrates a preoccupation. | |
| 6. | Most of the confidences were unsought — frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. |