How to Use in control in a Sentence

in control

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  • This keeps you in control and away from fake pages.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 22 Dec. 2025
  • He’s played with that passion but yet played in control.
    Scott Powers, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Those plans fell apart largely over who would be in control.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • These are no damsels in distress; these are femmes in control.
    Jake Smith, Glamour, 13 Sep. 2023
  • This puts you back in control, and gives you the power back.
    Elina Landman, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The centre-half should have been in control.
    Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Pérez, meanwhile, was in control on the mound.
    Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025
  • This can put you more in control of your data and who gets to look at it.
    Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Staying calm keeps you in control.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Feb. 2026
  • In the blink of an eye, the Thunder were in control.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2026
  • For a split second, Hendry was in control.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 5 Apr. 2026
  • So the business is in control of that logic.
    Peter Sadera, Sourcing Journal, 6 Feb. 2026
  • And the ones who will find an audience will be more in control of their fate.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Others just want to feel stronger, clearer or more in control.
    Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 3 June 2025
  • The Eagles have been able to be in control of their games in the first two weeks.
    Mark Kern, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
  • But the Chicago Bulls didn’t need to be in control.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Just like that, the Rays were in control again with a 10-6 lead.
    Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 7 Aug. 2023
  • This is one way for kids to feel involved and more in control of the next chapter in their lives.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 6 July 2026
  • Oh, right — the party in control of the White House.
    Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
  • So we should be completely used to the idea of not being in control in that way.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
  • But the people who are in control need to make those decisions.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The universe, after all, is in control.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 12 Jan. 2026
  • That left Israel in control of about half of the enclave.
    Samuel Granados, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Quinn Ewers looks in control right now, along with the defense.
    Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Sandhagen was in control for the entire fight, so this wasn’t a fluke win.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
  • People in the grip of an addiction are, in a sense, not in control of their own lives.
    Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • But when the playoffs open, the Kings again will be in control of their own outcome.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
  • So America has to be in control here.
    NBC news, 18 Jan. 2026
  • My mother, meanwhile, had never been more in control.
    Nicholas Thompson, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
  • And again, the United States needs to be in control to prevent a war.
    NBC news, 18 Jan. 2026

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