CONTROL in a Sentence

Learn CONTROL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
362 example sentences for CONTROL, such as:
1. I can't control my eating.
2. He paused to control his voice.
3. Selden's voice was under better control.
4. The people at control have already begun to count down.
5. Regular physical activity helps to control your weight.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CONTROL
control
 v.  exercise authoritative control or power over
 n.  a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another
Classic Sentence: (152 in 11 pages)
1  He paused to control his voice.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  He was in his mid-thirties, older than any beau she had ever had, and she was as helpless as a child to control and handle him as she had handled beaux nearer her own age.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  Heretofore she had never bothered to control her temper except in Ellen's presence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  Prissy had recovered her breath and a small measure of control but her eyes still rolled.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  she began desperately, her courage and control breaking.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  Any other Atlanta woman would have expired in rage at having to listen to such bigoted ignorance but Scarlett managed to control herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
7  Sue had been the cause of her father's death, whether she intended it or not, and she should have the decency to control herself in front of the hostile neighbors.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
8  For the greater part of three years, the state's capitol had remained in the control of white men and Democrats.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
9  Only Ashley and Rhett eluded her understanding and her control for they were both adults, and the elements of boyishness were lacking in them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
10  Now that the Carpetbagger government has really gotten control of Georgia, there's no telling what may happen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
11  If the mills went from her control it would mean that she would seldom see Ashley and probably never see him alone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
12  She had first gotten out of control the months when she traveled with her father.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
13  She rose to her feet abruptly, sinking her teeth into her thumb to regain her control.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
14  She patted Aunt Pitty and went swiftly by her to the front door, knowing if she stayed in this room another minute her control would crack.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
15  Selden's voice was under better control.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He's walking into a situation that he absolutely can't control.
2  The key to a happy life is to accept you are never actually in control.
3  Regular physical activity helps to control your weight.
4  They have to wait for clearance from air traffic control.
5  The people at control have already begun to count down.
6  To hedge around a partnership of love with control by law would be to destroy its base of trust in one another.
7  The teacher could not keep control of the class any longer.
8  The government denies that any of its territory is under rebel control.
9  She has lost her battle to retain control of the company.
10  Driving the Jaguar gave him a feeling of total control, effortless superiority.
11  Maybe there's something fate can't touch, fate doesn't control how easily you come to peace.
12  Routine maintenance of the garden consists of keeping weeds under control.
13  I can't control my eating.
14  When a company goes out of business, officials usually move in to take control.
15  It is anger that is repressed that leads to violence and loss of control.