Example Sentences

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That was followed by a Welsh penalty from Jarrod Evans, on for the hobbling Costelow, who had been controlling the game beautifully.

From Barron's • Feb. 21, 2026

But police and prosecutors opted for the more difficult, and perhaps more controversial, route to treat him as a victim and to go after those who had been controlling him.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2023

“We had been controlling the game, and I knew once we got that insurance goal that we just had to hunker down for 20 minutes. After that goal, it was like, ‘This game’s ours.’

From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2020

When she and Mottola split up four years later, she claimed he had been controlling and compared married life with him to being imprisoned at New York maximum security jail Sing Sing.

From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2018

In Tom's case he did not have access to this weapon, which was fixed on the rim of the cockpit where Jack could, and where he had been controlling, it.

From Air Service Boys in the Big Battle Or, Silencing the Big Guns by Beach, Charles Amory