CONTROLLING in a Sentence
Learn CONTROLLING 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 CONTROLLING, such as:
1. I can't control my eating.
2. He paused to control his voice.
3. The people at control have already begun to count down.
4. Regular physical activity helps to control your weight.
5. she began desperately, her courage and control breaking.
2. He paused to control his voice.
3. The people at control have already begun to count down.
4. Regular physical activity helps to control your weight.
5. she began desperately, her courage and control breaking.
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Meanings and Examples of CONTROLLING
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controlling
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 She said nothing, curling her toes in the loose slippers in an effort at controlling her quivering.
2 She felt that she was no longer analyzing and controlling forces, but swept on by them.
3 "No, papa, I'm not nervous," said Eva, controlling herself, suddenly, with a strength of resolution singular in such a child.
4 I've been trying to cure it for forty years, and have only succeeded in controlling it.
5 It was, he supposed more of a force or a radiance, controlling the thrush and the worm; the tulip and the hound; and himself, too, an old man with swollen veins.
6 She blushed, pressed her clasped hands on her knees, and then controlling herself with an evident effort lifted her head and began to speak rapidly.
7 For government consists in nothing else than in so controlling your subjects that it shall neither be in their power nor for their interest to harm you.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII.
8 He paused to control his voice.
9 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.
10 Heretofore she had never bothered to control her temper except in Ellen's presence.
11 Prissy had recovered her breath and a small measure of control but her eyes still rolled.
12 she began desperately, her courage and control breaking.
13 Any other Atlanta woman would have expired in rage at having to listen to such bigoted ignorance but Scarlett managed to control herself.
14 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.
15 For the greater part of three years, the state's capitol had remained in the control of white men and Democrats.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 There are lots of shining siliery thread on my back,controlling all my action.
2 We must reduce the danger of war by controlling nuclear, chemical and conventional arms.
3 He's walking into a situation that he absolutely can't control.
4 The key to a happy life is to accept you are never actually in control.
5 Regular physical activity helps to control your weight.
6 They have to wait for clearance from air traffic control.
7 The people at control have already begun to count down.
8 To hedge around a partnership of love with control by law would be to destroy its base of trust in one another.
9 The teacher could not keep control of the class any longer.
10 The government denies that any of its territory is under rebel control.
11 She has lost her battle to retain control of the company.
12 Driving the Jaguar gave him a feeling of total control, effortless superiority.
13 Maybe there's something fate can't touch, fate doesn't control how easily you come to peace.
14 Routine maintenance of the garden consists of keeping weeds under control.
15 I can't control my eating.