Example Sentences

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While the mainstream media were obsessing over the results of the Greek bailout referendum July 5, the news site Ozy.com was going in a different direction altogether.

From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2015

When most of her peers were obsessing over Duran Duran, Vicki Butler Henderson fell in love with a Volkswagen Golf GTI MkII.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2015

Such thoughts were obsessing, also, the parson of the parish.

From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley

"The pity—oh, the pity of it!" was all that I could say, and wisely Mrs. Mundy let me cry it out—the pain and horror which were obsessing me.

From People Like That by Bosher, Kate Langley

His strength was in the steady delineation of character, conscious of, but not deeply disturbed by, the problems which were obsessing and distracting smaller and greater minds.

From The Precipice by Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich