Sentence examples for my self-control from inspiring English sources

I was going flat out and lost my self-control.

I still wanted to talk to her, and my self-control was dwindling.

It was like a constant battle between my sexual urges and my self-control.

"'Talk it over with who?' I said, ungrammatically, crossly, teetering on the edge of my self-control".

Then I started feeling twitchy and it took all my self-control not to start checking email and Twitter.

But it is hard for me to maintain my self-control, and I worry I will bend students to my authority".

So much for my formidable self-control.

If I faltered and ate a roll at lunch, I'd become incapacitated by self-loathing and disgust over my limited self-control.

"I teach my daughters sexual self-control myself".

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I think I have always seen my own lack of self-control -- that is, my impulsive spontaneity -- as a kind of luxury good, and so I'm loathe to voluntarily slap a tax on it.