CONTROLLED in a Sentence

Learn CONTROLLED 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 CONTROLLED, such as:
1. He controlled the urge to laugh.
2. Access to the site is closely controlled.
3. Her cancer can only be controlled, not cured.
4. The Negro as a political factor can be controlled.
5. I controlled my features and tried to speak seriously.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CONTROLLED
controlled
 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 controlled a line of grain elevators in the little towns along the railroad to the west of us, and was away from home a great deal.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
2  I controlled my features and tried to speak seriously.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
3  The Negro as a political factor can be controlled.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
4  Other business men became alarmed over the situation and the Free Speech was run away that the colored people might be more easily controlled.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII
5  When little Antanas was born he had been at work, and had known nothing about it until it was over; and now he was not to be controlled.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
6  With serene regularity, as if controlled by a schedule, bullets buffed into men.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
7  In such ecstasies that he even controlled his tongue and was silent.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  He questioned her with his eyes, but the firm and steady gaze of the young girl controlled his look.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3. The Catalans.
9  Madame Danglars looked at her husband with an expression which, at any other time, would have indicated a storm, but for the second time she controlled herself.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 62. Ghosts.
10  His face darkened with some powerful emotion, which, nevertheless, he so instantaneously controlled by an effort of his will, that, save at a single moment, its expression might have passed for calmness.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
11  They walked along the road through the valley, and chiefly in silence, for Marianne's MIND could not be controlled, and Elinor, satisfied with gaining one point, would not then attempt more.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
12  Her grief burst out when she first saw me; but she controlled it soon, and spoke in whispers, and walked softly, as if the dead could be disturbed.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
13  Arina Vlasyevna was crying quietly; she was utterly crushed, and could not have controlled herself at all if her husband had not spent two whole hours early in the morning exhorting her.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
14  rattled the drums, and Pierre understood that this mysterious force completely controlled these men and that it was now useless to say any more.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XIII
15  Pierre felt that that fatal force which had crushed him during the executions, but which he had not felt during his imprisonment, now again controlled his existence.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XIV
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Access to the site is closely controlled.
2  Pollution is legally controlled and enforced through various federal and state laws.
3  Her cancer can only be controlled, not cured.
4  Interest rates can be controlled by order of the central bank.
5  Modern missiles are so accurate because their flight is controlled by computer.
6  Development in areas of outstanding natural beauty is strictly controlled.
7  He controlled the urge to laugh.
8  The new monitor apparatus is automatically controlled.
9  Police destroyed the suspect package in a controlled explosion.
10  The pressure of steam in the engine is controlled by this button.
11  They also modify the accountant's certificate to refer to controlled trust money.
12  As finance is a limited resource in any organization, its application should be carefully controlled.
13  Remember, all cars are priced, booked and controlled by car category, not by car maker or model.
14  But, the fume gas control techniques of most of them are highly advanced, where dioxins emission is usually controlled within standard.
15  In a controlled experiment, fifty volunteers were given aspirin tablets; the control group received only placebo ones.