Example Sentences

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Iowa’s biggest defensive challenge will be controlling TE Trey McBride, who can line up in the slot or as an H-back and is capable of stretching the field.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2021

The philosophy will be controlling possession, the first defender being the striker, pressing.

From The Guardian • Jun. 16, 2017

They will be controlling things on the front for long periods of the race and pacing me once the climbing begins.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2013

Sept. i, merging them by Cabinet decree into one big company of which the State will be controlling stockholder.

From Time Magazine Archive

To the most upright and fearless man the danger of this is great; to a weak or bad man the feeling of personal obligation will be controlling.

From The American Judiciary by Baldwin, Simeon E., LLD