How to Use controlling in a Sentence

controlling

adjective

• She is very strict and controlling.
• The larger bank remained the controlling party when it took over the smaller banks.
• He paid over 40 million dollars for a controlling interest in the company.
• She has been married less than a year to a very controlling man.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 9 July 2021
• And will Trump chafe under the more controlling chief of staff?
  — Zeke J Miller, Time, 1 Aug. 2017
• My youngest twin moved out because my husband is so controlling.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 5 Nov. 2020
• They have long since been known to be very controlling with video footage from tournament play.
  — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
• His sister became very controlling and kept urging him not to see me, which brought me great pain.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 1 Dec. 2020
• Her chewing you out for not being at her beck and call sounds very controlling and like another red flag.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 1 June 2022
• His fiancée is extremely controlling and has him on a very short tether.
  — Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024
• Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen held a controlling stake in me for about a decade.
  — Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2021
• Although the two were very much in love, DiMaggio could be very controlling.
  — ELLE, 29 Sep. 2022
• And sometimes the most controlling and destructive cliques are the ones that aren't on anyone’s radar.
  — Sherri Gordon, Parents, 3 July 2024
• In girl friend groups, one of the girls is a bit more controlling, a bit more sassy, and a bit more precocious than the other ones.
  — Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2026
• Prokhorov sold a chunk of his stake in the Nets earlier this month, but is still the team's controlling owner.
  — Scooby Axson, SI.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• ByteDance keeps a non-controlling stake to comply with federal law.
  — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
• Thompson will take a controlling stake in the business, though financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 26 Sep. 2022
• If that goes through, the $13 billion group will have a controlling stake of 55% in the channel.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 25 Aug. 2022
• Musk's agreement to join the board prevents him from taking a controlling stake in Twitter.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2022
• The show’s other villains are its husbands and boyfriends, who are either very controlling or just downright shady.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 12 Sep. 2024
• The investments are in Melvin’s fund and include non-controlling revenue shares in the firm.
  — Juliet Chung, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2021
• But he’s being put through the paces by a filmmaker who turns out to be just as controlling as Parker himself.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 22 June 2022
• Then her third goal, six minutes into the second half, gave Heritage a controlling 5-0 lead.
  — Dallas News, 16 Apr. 2021
• In the classic comedy film 9 to 5, the controlling boss won’t allow his employees to have plants on their desks.
  — Kym Gold, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• In return for the rare intra-month investments, the two firms received non-controlling revenue shares in Melvin for three years.
  — Juliet Chung, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2021
• This has impacted every aspect of his life — sleep, eating habits and his controlling attitude toward me.
  — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 4 July 2026
• The five of us are all pretty controlling people, but to let the music go and let Tom do his thing and see the results were pretty miraculous.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 27 Apr. 2018
• In 2012, Sprecher bought a controlling stake in Endex, the Dutch gas exchange.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2021
• Yet another was a forum for people who, like me, had left a highly controlling religious denomination.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
• The startup will pay Nvidia in cash for chips, and Nvidia will invest in OpenAI for non-controlling shares, the person said.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025