Sentence examples for were controlling from inspiring English sources
verb
To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
- With a simple remote, he could control the toy truck.
2. Having had controlling parents: One or both of your parents were controlling -- invasive, overprotective, engulfing, consuming, physically or sexually abusive, shaming or critical.
I thought we were controlling this game.
We felt good, like we were controlling play".
But the Rangers had a lead and were controlling the game with their signature defensive style.
The firefighters were controlling the fire, but without water, they could not stop the fire.
He expressed great concern in a speech in 1999 that foreign governments were controlling oil.
It was a shock to see her walk, as if someone else were controlling her limbs.
Dr. Vedder said in an interview that his priorities were controlling costs and raising productivity.
"I was told," he says, "that foreigners had overtaken my country; that non-Muslims were controlling Afghanistan.
The rebels maintain that they were controlling chaos, not creating it, and that accounts of mass deaths were overblown.
Instead, gangs were controlling them and using drones to smuggle drugs and other contraband into the north London jail.
