“I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t think I had anything to learn,” I said bitingly before I managed to get my tongue under control again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Clarence gestured for the three treasure hunters to follow him through the red door into the control room. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Effective and inexpensive methods of local control have been known for years. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In fact, only by standing on a wooden box could I reach the controls of the machine I was assigned to operate. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

First, experts in mosquito control complained that Congress had not budgeted enough money for the campaign to succeed. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I’m not always going to be able to control whether people call me names or write mean notes. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He tried to control his panic as he worked through the options if Julie no longer got lunch. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Pollard dove for it himself, took control of the race, then eased Seabiscuit back. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But seeing Mr. Grin at the controls had changed all that. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

This bitter punishment was inflicted upon them because of a physical condition over which they had no control. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wherever there are great forests, modern methods of insect control threaten the fishes inhabiting the streams in the shelter of the trees. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The fact that I can’t stop my knees from bouncing undermines any sense of control, though. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The events at Camp Jupiter seemed as fuzzy and unreal as that fight with Jason, when they had both been controlled by the eidolons. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Several staged sets of chutes deployed automatically to slow our descent, then Martinez manually piloted us to the ground, using the thrusters to slow descent and control our lateral motion. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the stretcher was maneuvered into position alongside the bed, Briony’s fingers went slack, she had no control over them, and she brought up her left knee in time to catch the weight. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Sorrento appeared to be struggling with the controls in an effort to get the beast back on its feet. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Efforts to control the fungus disease of the elms have been directed largely toward control of the carrier insect. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Moreover, if this trade-off is not acknowledged, there is a tendency to deny or cover up the inevitable defective items, which makes the job of quality control that much more difficult. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It takes strength and control and attention to drive a truck long distances, no matter how much the effort is made easier by air brakes and power- assisted steering. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when he spoke, his voice was temperate and controlled, mild. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Francie saw practical black two-seaters drawn by a single high-stepping horse controlled by dandified young men in kid gloves with edges turned back to look like inverted cuffs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most aggressive rams, those that showed the greatest resistance to human control, were slaughtered first. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt safe to let the two of them take control. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But up till a week ago, the dictator’s family was in control and nothing but essential correspondence was being allowed out. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

It was like some other force had control of the water besides Iris the messenger goddess. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Now our major concern is no longer with the disease organisms that once were omnipresent; sanitation, better living conditions, and new drugs have given us a high degree of control over infectious disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It has only been nine months since he died, and now my teacher wants me to open the floodgates and lose control of my emotions by writing a book? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He slashed his blade across the top, decapitating the controls in a shower of bronze sparks. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Unable to control the tumbling motion of my flight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She could not control the strength of the gnarled roots that held it to the cliff. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Normally, she would have taken control of a situation like this, directing the care of Lola, reassuring her mother, listening to the doctor’s advice, consulting with Leon. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It would probably take years for the ANC to control the levers of government, even after an election. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, controlling my temper, careful not to do or say anything that would jeopardize the Negroes’ position in the area. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Paul Marshall, Bobby’s lawyer, addressed Bobby’s “dread”: “Bobby fears the unknown, whatever lies beyond his control. He tries to eliminate any element of chance from his life and his chess.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At its psychological nub, Washington’s inveterate realism was rooted in his commitment to control, over himself and over any and all events with the power to determine his fate. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

My fingers clawed out his throat, our hands grappling together for control, our bodies straining to learn who would live and who would die. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

From that point on, everything would be run from the control room in Oppenheimer’s bomb shelter, six miles from the blast site. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The venison is much better when smoked in a building where the fire can be controlled. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she was looking away, looking at the control room. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I realize this is the first time I’ve been in a boy’s—uh—man’s car and been out of control of a situation. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Can that kind of mysterious reaction be controlled? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I want to believe that Father has it all under control, but memories like these tell me he may be as lost as I am. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Thus, it could assert its power over the fortunes of later generations and had to be appeased or controlled. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw him sitting with the invaders right before I came in here. Some people saw him at the control room before the attack—they say he was disabling the alarm system.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I had no means of controlling where I was going—no rud­der, no sails, no motor, some oars but insufficient brawn. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Genes embedded so deep they control our eye muscles, so that two sisters have that same way of blinking, and boy twins dribble in unison. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In a show of solidarity, Anthony refused to run for reelection as secretary, letting go of control of the organization she had founded two years before. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I’m searching for the temp control right now. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The six familiar, friendly faces of the flight instrument panel smiled at her behind the control column. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Why should a writer want to control the order in which the reader thinks her thoughts? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I remember what he said on the first day, about working in the control room, where the Dauntless monitor the city’s security. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

My hands shake as I stop by the control room to watch the city on the screens. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“No advantage there, Chino. Thass no secret. Anyone in El Barrio from the university of the street knows that the Italians controlled the neighborhood. They ran the numbahs, they ran the drugs.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“There is a class that controls a country that is stupid and does not realize anything and never can. That is why we have this war.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Even in battle, she is always cool, controlled. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I’m thankful that Mr. Terupt let me take the control home. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

A failing TB control system had led to many uncompleted therapies; rising crime had led to overcrowded prisons. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Now he could control it, more or less, and called them on purpose. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Yassuh,” Noah replied, pulling the animal into a more controlled gait. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clear out all the evidence in case the strikers seized control of the slaughterhouse? The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But I controlled myself, and by the time Strauss took the podium the impulse had passed. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of these, however, he had only many small limbs which were incessantly moving with very different motions and which, in addition, he was unable to control. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was probably asking himself yet again what he had done to deserve this strange, creature he called his son He wasn't as big as him, as interesting, as disciplined, controlled, dependable, or reasonable. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He used people and used his money to move them by remote control. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

We watched until we were sure she could control the horse. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond that, the German bomb project was beyond his control. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then Dulles handed Harvey a plum: control of Division D, putting him in charge of the CIA's covert operations around the world. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He hardly dared to hope, but he might even be able to build a new control disk for a certain dragon friend of his. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The Todd School allowed young Orson to take control of the student stage productions. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“If you’d rather learn the hard way — when someone’s putting it on you so they can control you completely — fine by me. You’re excused. Off you go.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Curtain had perfect control of his chair, however, and as he raced down the rows he expertly dodged the children’s feet and the sharp corners of their desks, smiling as he went. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He could no longer control his own trembling. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“She has remarkable control for one so young,” he remarks to Hector. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But I wouldn’t be keeping within my experiment’s controlled variables if I used a nonhuman participant. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Recently we’ve been eating a little extra rye bread because by four o’clock we’re so hungry for dinner we can barely control our rumbling stomachs. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Nailer wondered briefly who controlled the ship and then realized that he didn’t really care. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I led Diego to the bed, and we eased under my sheets, letting instinct and hormones take control. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It suddenly occurred to me just how absurd this scene was: a guy wearing a suit of armor, standing next to an undead king, both hunched over the controls of a classic arcade game. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We may be tempted to control it, or douse it with buckets of doubt, dismay, and disbelief. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mamá tried to control her temper by closing her eyes and taking a deep breath. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Daughter of Pluto, you may control gems and metals. You do not control the dead.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The resort to weapons such as insecticides to control it is a proof of insufficient knowledge and of an incapacity so to guide the processes of nature that brute force becomes unnecessary. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I was one who set this machine running, and now cannot control its running. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

What made an interpretation right was not its formal structure but its usefulness, the fact that it made possible prediction and control. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the eastern areas where the beetles have been longest established, attempts have been made to set up natural controls. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Without a bridle he had no control whatever over the runaway. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Popper turned the cold control switch to its coldest so that Captain Cook could sleep more comfortably. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Adding to the crisis, he stood by and let Rome take control of the Egyptian island of Cyprus. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The Department of Agriculture’s Yearbook for 1952, devoted entirely to insects, recognizes the fact that insects become resistant but says, “More applications or greater quantities of the insecticides are needed then for adequate control.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

While not really an apology—indeed, forces beyond his control had dictated his actions—this was at least a major concession. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Bigwig realized that since the moment when Kehaar had attacked him in the field, Woundwort had not only retained control over his officers but had actually made a plan and put it into effect. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, in a cool and spotless room, a Gamemaker sits at a set of controls, fingers on the triggers that could end my life in a second. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Lyra couldn’t control its movement at all; it swung where it wanted to, like a compass needle, except that it didn’t settle. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

And, to make sure there was food, they seized control of all food production. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

But they are unprepared, and Beetee, apparently anticipating he would not hold on to control, has an arsenal of five- to ten-second clips to work with. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

My life had for the last half hour been completely controlled by a horse, two coyotes, a roadrunner, and a jackrabbit. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was white men who dominated politics, controlled the nation’s wealth, and wrote the rules by which everyone else was forced to live. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I arbitrarily punch buttons on the control board and end up hopping from foot to foot as alternating jets of icy cold and steaming hot water assault me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I’m sure it will be very peaceful when we are all either dead or cowering in submission under the threat of mind control or stuck in an endless simulation.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s also not controlled. Anyone can go there and play, so unsupervised kids are out there playing. Unsupervised adults are out there playing. And it’s not a healthy environment for kids.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Then, just like that, the green kite was spinning and wheeling out of control. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nor do I want to throw the comics away: that would be letting them loose, they might go out of control. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is simply taken for granted that, in cities like Baltimore and Chicago, the vast majority of young black men are currently under the control of the criminal justice system or branded criminals for life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

To occupy my mind and keep me from spiraling out of control, I tried to come up with an explanation for why the sluggers chose me to save the planet. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It meant being free from the control of big corporations. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

On September 14, the army took control of the momentarily independent Republic of Congo, and Lumumba was put under house arrest in Léopoldville, surrounded by Mobutu’s freshly purchased soldiers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every system of control depends for its survival on the tangible and intangible benefits that are provided to those who are responsible for the system’s maintenance and administration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

How would the acquisition and control of this knowledge—and its inevitable invasion of our private and public lives—alter the way we imagine our societies, our children, and ourselves? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Rows of striking pins were controlled by levers on the outside of the cone, which was fixed to a square metal base with a bunch of crank handles. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The driver lost control, and drove off the side of the road, slamming into a tree before coming to rest in a river. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have the energy for romantic rebellion—the possibility of losing all control of my life was like a depthless black chasm that had suddenly opened up in front of me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

All this is of much more than academic interest, for the new and economical “gyplure” might be used not merely in census operations but in control work. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I explained our unwillingness to cast aside the SACP, and reiterated that we were not under its control. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The driving controls are okay, and the nav computer is telling me the rover is at an "unacceptably dangerous tilt." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Firefighters try to control the blaze with water hoses. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It also gave Ebright the ability to control the nutritional value of what his boys were tucking into. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They could also mean that potentially harmful organisms, formerly held in check, could escape from their natural controls and rise to pest status. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In almost every case, each side believed itself to be superior—ethnocentrism seems to be a near- universal human quality—and from this belief was convinced that it could control the encounter to its advantage. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Lemoncello has left the building,” said Clarence, coming out of the control room off the lobby. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He felt in control but not in control, the business being his but not his. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I did make her give me control of the radio. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

To be put outdoors by a landlord was one thing—unfortunate, but an aspect of life over which you had no control, since you could not control your income. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tall man sat in the machine next to him, shouting in his ear and gesturing at the controls. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He was now serving a life sentence, and advised us to control our temper. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

And soon we will control the undersea furnaces, our ancestral home!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He took die controls back, then reached up and rubbed his left shoulder. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

As my mentor, he gets to control the flow of gifts from the sponsors. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

If he wept, I was not sure I could control myself. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the Pythagoreans, ratios and proportions controlled musical beauty, physical beauty, and mathematical beauty. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Soon they were so beyond control that they collapsed onto two couches, shrieking and hiccupping and holding their noses. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“We could teach you to control your gifts. You could help people. Protect them. The way your parents were supposed to.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

His hands moved so fast they seemed to be controlled by an otherworldly force. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone controlling Egypt gained access to its enormous treasury and unlimited resources. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Disagreements within the African American community about how best to respond to systems of control—and even disagreements about what is, and is not, discriminatory—have a long history. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She laughed for an entire minute before she finally got control of herself again. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Not even pretties, whose bodies were perfectly balanced, designed for elegance in every kind of clothing, moved with such effortless control Tally deliberately turned her eyes away from him. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Keep control of yourself. No matter what happens, keep control ...” “I know,” 1 said in a voice not my own. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says it’s all about control and endurance, but I suspect it has more to do with the fact that his lung capacity is 20 percent larger than the average person’s. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They burned the king’s palace to the ground and emptied the rest of Tilcajete, leaving Monte Alban firmly in control of the entire valley. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Holly wormed her free hand to the helmet controls. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“The Bloody Baron’s the only one who can control him, he won’t even listen to us prefects. Here we are.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“But it’s out of my control now. I need to let it go, so the grief doesn’t eat me alive.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Once loosed, it was beyond the control of mere men. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But Leo still had to deduce the right sequence to activate this control sphere. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As a result, patients like Woolf could never truly control their illness. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The hardest part of the makeover process is giving up control. You have to decide: do you want to trust your judgment about what you should be, or try judgment?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Sarf has more complete control over communications than I knew, or thought possible. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had taken control of the laptop and was scrolling through Julie Hopper’s photos. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Everything seemed to be slipping away from me and I could find no quick absorbing action that would get it under control. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rolling over rocks, spinning, out of all control. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced down and saw that my hands were on the controls. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Studying with Patterson, she began to understand that the voice could be controlled and channeled. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

While under formal control, virtually every aspect of one’s life is regulated and monitored by the system, and any form of resistance or disobedience is subject to swift sanction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

My dad felt like it was better for us to experiment in a controlled and safe setting, and while his logic made sense to me, I never took him up on his offer. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

If I was going to take care of them, if they were my responsibility, if any of us were going to survive, then I had to learn to control my temper. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She was laughing lightly now, not uproariously, still in control of her body. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I quickened my pace while still maintaining control of my red case with the 360-degree spinning wheel option. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Candy’s face had grown redder and redder, but before she was done speaking, he had control of himself. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first suggestion that an insect might be controlled by encouraging its enemies is generally credited to Erasmus Darwin about 1800. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

From that day on the sense of responsibility, the natural grace, the calm control that Remedios would have in the face of adverse circumstances was revealed. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The same button that controlled the ignition first dumped the ashes of the previous fire, and allowed for the entrance of fresh wood.—It was a thoroughly domesticated fireplace, you see. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Pollard, surely overwrought from the reducing, lost control. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about control, about trust, about independence. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Merchants and charlatans gained control of Europe, calling their insidious gospel “The Enlightenment.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Grandma,” I said, as much to myself as to her, “it’s got to be okay. Government’s always checking it out. Ferryboat’s got to be safe or it won’t get a license. Government controls it.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I couldn’t control myself anymore, and I burst into laughter right into the phone. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“We have to share it,” he said and Ugwu wondered how he managed to get it, how a child so young seemed so flexibly in control. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sheepmen who survived did so only by becoming indentured servants to the large companies that controlled the range and the grazing permit system. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was angry—hot, seething angry—but he knew that, because of Angel, he had to control himself. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the rebel techno team manages to override even the latter and, in a real coup, keeps control for almost the entire attack on Snow. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But this time he controlled the fright faster and realized that he had been right. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, it’s about the city. Someone heard it in the control room today—Marcus’s trial is scheduled for tomorrow morning.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Kathy took comfort in this, thinking that perhaps the city was coming under control. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She also said that people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don’t, nothing will work out the way they want. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He tried not to laugh, but he wasn’t good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The silence this stigma engenders among family members, neighbors, friends, relatives, co-workers, and strangers is perhaps the most painful—yet least acknowledged—aspect of the new system of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Police kept tight control on the people, on the ugly chaos. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Many also admit that a predictable consequence of breaking up one drug ring is a slew of violence as others fight for control of the previously stabilized market. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

My state is getting worse, I can no longer control my thoughts. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tommy,” I said, and I suppose by now I was furious, but I kept my voice quiet and under control, “I’m the one to help you. That’s why I came and found you again.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

During those long stretches where my body is beyond my control, I often wonder how they communicate with one another. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But she had discovered something; still holding it upside down, she poked at its abdomen and then, with her nail, located the tiny control panel. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The wheelchair was unlike any they’d ever seen: It had four evenly spaced wheels, like a cart, with button controls on the armrests and pedal controls beneath each foot. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It took all my control to face the powerful head priest at such a moment. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The spraying can often be done by men on foot, using knapsack sprayers, and having complete control over their material. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The McMahon Bill excluded the military from control of atomic energy, except as the technology was directly applicable to weapons, propulsion, and other military needs. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And immediately beyond Korea's borders, Chinese Communists led by Mao Zedong seized control of the mainland in 1949, following a four-year-long civil war with the nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s under control. You go on now, girl, and do something else. Leave your mother be.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You consider yourself a rebel. Ignoring the rules because it somehow makes you feel in control. Am I right?” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The composition is controlled in part by perspective. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so glad to have a feisty female around here to help me keep these boys under control. I been needing a girl on my team.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Necessity being the mother of invention, black people created their own transit system, an informal network of bus routes, controlled by private associations operating entirely outside the law. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

What was within their control, however, they took pains to bulletproof, even if it meant stretching—then breaking—their timeline. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Instead of the bright glare and the sharp, controlled edges, they were sketched in a kind of watery charcoal. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The school, the church...Parker had hidden clues in places he could control. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There are other enterprises where our ability to change the rules is constrained by factors over which we have no control. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I’m controlling my breathing and bracing myself for anything as we walk up the porch, to the front door. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her dad picked up the remote control and muted the TV. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Looks seem rather important, as does the ability to enlighten, disappoint, and control great numbers of people who always seem to be American. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

One treatment may be sufficient, with a possible follow-up for extremely resistant species; thereafter the shrubs assert control and the trees do not return. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The asthma was under control, but the doctor alerted me to something else—Malia’s body mass index, a measure of health that factors together height, weight, and age, was beginning to creep up. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A mage can control only what is near him, what he can name exactly and wholly. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Dinky would always walk around like, “I control my woman.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Yes. And as long as that kept rolling in, the Capitol could control its little empire. Right now, it can provide neither, at least at the standard the people are accustomed to,” says Plutarch. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

This diverted the pain from deep inside his brain, where he couldn’t reach it, to a pain outside that he had control over. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“I made it to the control room, and Tobias was there.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The men experienced reduction in the dopamine transporter, a protein, as compared to a control group of nine men who were not compulsive Internet users. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“They got the utility company to fix several poles. Molly told me they’ve written the governor about the pere-grines. He controls the Department of Transportation.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then again, only four days ago he had been controlled by an eidolon and almost killed Percy Jackson. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Desperately, he scrabbled for the yo-yo and found the control he wanted. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

"And how are you going to control it once you've got a fire going? It hasn't rained for ages. The hills will be ablaze before you know it." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Could the people behind the Maze control them somehow? The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The blaze was brought under control just before 10 p.m., but damage to the subbasement laboratory was extensive. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s lost control of her whole life. Isn’t it good that she has some now?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Never do I want to feel out of control like that again. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, yes. With a whole bunch of rules and regulations and controls, that’s pretty much how it works.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

We set up and operated our own government, we controlled our own arms and we organized our trade and commerce. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembers from the time he came down the hill too fast on his Rollerblades, lost control, and smacked his forehead right on the L0. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Her rage should start at The Taker and extend to every single way her body is legally controlled or left unprotected. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Reports issued early in the year 1949 declared that the arsenic-resistant ticks could be controlled readily with the new chemical; later in the same year, a bleak notice of developing resistance had to be published. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I swam with long even strokes, trying to remain in control of my body, not letting the undertow pull me down. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The control panels were pieced-together displays and switches that seemed to come from a dozen sources. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I felt the same horrible force taking control of my arms, and I couldn’t stop my hands from moving down to the lid of the box. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Raya’s plane had been damaged, but she could still control it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Luckily this time, I was paired against Myra, who couldn’t throw a good punch if someone was controlling her arm for her. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

More important, he didn’t need the pockets anymore to protect the magical piece of firewood that controlled his life span. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He took off after her but lost control as he headed down the steepest part of the slope. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Mind control? So they don’t know that they’re killing people right now?” my father asks me, his eyes wide. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“We don’t know all the reasons for Cole’s anger, but we do know he’s out of control. Any solution found by this Circle must protect society and make Cole totally responsible for his actions.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

During the second part of the broadcast, police officers appeared at the control booth, wanting to know what was going on. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I took the control home, but Danielle and I decided to leave our plant in school. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

It takes all my control to keep the smile on my face. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I had one chance before this all got totally out of control. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

His hands were constantly in motion, pulling tools from his belt, working controls, tinkering with his beloved Archimedes sphere. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The woman seemed to have lost control of herself completely. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

In an instant, she brought herself back under complete control. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s amazing how he controlled thousands of teenagers called the “Brown Shirts.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The world was strange if you stopped to think about it; still it was a world that could be controlled by science, and the Brotherhood had both science and history under control. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ragweed, the bane of hay fever sufferers, offers an interesting example of the way efforts to control nature sometimes boomerang. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her voice was once more calm and controlled—the voice of the efficient games mistress. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Once he gained control there, he could continue on, advancing on the Parthians from the rear and outflanking them. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

No matter how well armed the Keepers were, they couldn’t hope to control a crowd that size. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to circle, a hair too steeply at first, then with steadier rudder control. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Breakdancing gave me focus and control; when I worked hard, I saw results. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Ministry of Health, in charge of TB control in the civilian sector, wanted most of the loan. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

What she wouldn’t give for restful sleep like that, not to mention the degree of control he had within his dreams. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Stop hollering so much, will you?” answered Milo, who was standing there right beside him in the control tower with a microphone of his own. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She looked at the television screen, a sitcom that she’d muted with the remote control when the phone rang. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

From his courses at Northwestern and elsewhere, and from studying the legendary acting coaches like Constantin Stanislavski, he knows the principles of restraint and control. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’d had no say in my appearance and no control over what was decided in the name of my face. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

And neither could I. I knew kids at school who seemed out of control and violent, but still I wondered how someone could be so pointlessly destructive. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A windsock at the end of the field, swollen with moderate gusts, pointed like an absurd finger past the control tower and to the far runway. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This situation also explains the otherwise mystifying fact that certain outstanding entomologists are among the leading advocates of chemical control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Henry cranks the wheel left, as instructed, and we fishtail, until he manages to gain control, straightening out, then punches the gas. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t have to remember where the control room is, because the people in the hallway lead me to it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I’m pretty sure I’ve been hijacked and am no longer at the brain controls. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It tapped twice, clearly and sharply, and I could not control myself. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

At the top of her list: Percy controlling a tide of poison and suffocating the goddess Akhlys. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I have...control issues. I need to know that things are in order.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t, after all, always keep his voice under control. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to social media, it was a prank that spiraled out of control. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He really needs to work on his volume control. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

In the roaring, piling thunder of the river he had no control. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

So the next morning someone notified the British authorities, who still controlled our country. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The commander could barely control the shoving crowd, which was desperate to get aboard. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Dell looked like he had just lost bowel control. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Two farmers, whose landholdings were small when compared to the great areas controlled by some of the Virginia slaveholders, were outspoken in their criticism of the institution of slavery. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly my confidence began to spin out of control. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

And bringing in screechers would help keep the snail population under control. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

‘You guys have to find Nike and figure out how to subdue her . . . whatever Juno meant by that. I still don’t understand how you defeat a goddess who controls victory. Seems impossible.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was hard to control the breathlessness of his voice, even for those two syllables. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Something was happening to her which neither she nor he could control. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At that time it was believed that insecticides — then inorganic chemicals — would solve the problems of insect control, that the only task was to induce fruit growers to follow the recommended methods. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I told you before,” she says, “time is not something I can control.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She had no control over the log, but it kept her head above water so that she could breathe more than one gulp at a time. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I nod to let her know I’ve heard her, but I’m afraid to speak in case my feelings spill out of me and I lose control. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

And they perform them with a greater sense of control. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

While the government announced that it was maintaining control throughout the country, the Liberals were receiving secret news of armed uprisings in the interior. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Then at last, it seemed eternity, she began to control herself. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the United States our foresters seem to have thought of biological control chiefly in terms of introducing insect parasites and predators. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I always knew I couldn’t be Candor. I mean, I try to be honest, but some things you just don’t want people to know. Plus, I like to be in control of my own mind.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

There was magic at work, and it was a magic mightier than anything Loki could control. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

By doing this he gained control over himself and kept quiet, for he could now hear the manager. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent our time, significantly, between the three- block section on Auburn Street where Negro financing and industry controls some eighty million dollars, and the section of the six Negro colleges. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A voice-over tells the audience what they are viewing as we try to regroup, react to the black gel shooting from the street, lose control of the situation. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The panic was only barely contained; I had no strength left to control the anger. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He responded to his father’s controlled violence by developing hard habits and a soft imagination. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she spends $9 a pop for pills to control the migraines she wouldn’t have, she insists, if her estrogen supplements were covered. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to tighten up his face into a mask of insouciance, worldliness, and control. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His spirit had entered the painting and was taking control. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I remind myself he has plenty of control over his body. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She would never have time to figure out the right controls at the ship’s console. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The tears had come, she could not control them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And later, I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you’re in control. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can control your magic?” she asks me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

They were sure, of course, that they wouldn’t “become wild” here in America, where there was “no one to control them.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dalgard feared he could lose control of the situation in a hurry if he let the Army get its foot in the door. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being compared to my mother makes me want to punch Lorena right in the mouth, but I do my best to control myself. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Johnson had rebuffed Hoover in the past, but now the president was willing to listen to his reports that King was controlled by powerful Communists. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I put my hand over my mouth; then I tried to stop my mouth with my fist; if I couldn’t get control of this laughing they would hear me in the room. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Octavian administered to Egypt’s people and controlled its treasury himself. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

A garden was one of the few things in prison that one could control. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in democracies today, crucial knowledge is available to only a few individuals, who control the flow of information to the rest of the government and consequently control decisions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he has an aura around him now and he controls something of value: parts in his productions. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Only a strip of the river between Baton Rouge and Vicksburg was then under Confederate control. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

And since when did Mrs. Salinger let things get so out of control? Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Terrorist acts lie beyond our control; french fries do not. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The craft hung still for some moments, slightly tilted, before she found the controls to move it forward, and in those few seconds, Lord Asriel did three things. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“What of you, Master Kilvin? How did you manage to get the fire under control?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If he had all of East River under his sway, what’s to say he couldn’t have controlled a small army of Reds, too? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When the German army invaded and conquered Poland in September 1939, more than three million additional Jews came under Nazi control. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Otherwise, I thought she possessed the most exquisite control over the muscles of her face. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She forced the hand around the flight controls. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“No matter where I stand, I’ll still think mind controlling an entire city of people is evil.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The subject matter—the power and peril of sex, secrets and lies that spin out of control—speaks to high schoolers. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She’s right, I have been coming to the control room a lot. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

From the shoulders down she was wrapped in duct tape, her mouth gagged and her legs bound to the control console. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

If it’s a story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the last exchange between Avianca and the control tower, just minutes before the crash. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

If they could get control of the whole of Africa, if they had airfields and submarine bases at the Cape, it would cut Oceania in two. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The control of body lice in Naples was one of the earliest and most publicized achievements of DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Like things had been out of control for so long that whatever I did hardly mattered anymore. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The cities are safe, the controlled territories are largely secure...Why should our citizens pay to educate colored boys and girls to do a job they’re already biologically equipped to do? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to be controlled,” I say, my voice a whisper. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want him to get the idea that he could control it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Moon controlled the tides, the life cycles of many animals, and perhaps the human menstrual' period—of central importance for a passionate species devoted to having children. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even want to think about the preacher preaching about how God is in control of it all, or my mother, my sweet, sweet mother caught in the middle of it all. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

What kind of people would control this world had been equally obvious. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Or was Sayle such a control freak that he had to know what his guests were doing, every minute of the day and night? Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It can’t be controlled voluntarily, as can skin conductivity, respiration, and cardiac rate.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The stockman’s zeal for eliminating the coyote has resulted in plagues of field mice, which the coyote formerly controlled. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“But I have no control over what he does. To tell you the truth, I have very little power over anything around here,” she said morosely. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Jalazone teachers used harsh discipline to keep their classes under control. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

In ordinary circumstances, having the military in control would hardly be good news, but it felt like the best thing I’d ever heard. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

During this interval, the control agencies must have found news from Long Island disquieting. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The new rulers of Mutal had aggressively thrown their weight around and by Sky Witness’s time controlled as much as eight thousand square miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They passed on their control and privileges to their children, creating a hereditary priesthood: counselors to kings, if not kings themselves. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

All it takes is one small mistake anywhere in the division process for cells to start growing out of control, he told us. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You think because you can humiliate me, you can control me?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“But if he controls the boy, he wins the war,” she said. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

As soon as she entered—an invisible marauder, unseen and unfelt—the dream was hers to control. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It's long dried now, but the smeary lines running side to side suggest someone -who perhaps was not fully in control of his mental faculties -tried to wipe it away. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We fought over everything: who could control the TV remote, whose turn it was to use the phone, and who had dibs on marrying Leonardo DiCaprio. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But then, during the first orbit, the capsule’s automatic control system began to act up, causing the capsule to pull back and forth like a badly aligned car. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He wrapped the sorceress’s controls and then climbed down from the hay bales and picked up his crutches. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you say that you didn’t know how to control it?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They came at him from every angle, wrestling for control of an arm or a leg, trying to get him to the floor. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was tired of apologizing for things that were beyond my control. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Pyce wants my father to allow something he disagrees with. If Pyce controls me, my father has to acquiesce. Pyce stands to make billions, and not in dollars. Chinese red cash. Billions.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Situation under control,” Dad said and beckoned us over. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Werfel couldn’t control his temper anymore, so he stopped talking. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Smith needed a little Howard image control, but he was on his own. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For reasons beyond our control, we never ended up getting a green card through my grandmother. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He lost control and struck her in the face, knocking her against the wall. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This happens a lot in our house because it’s an old hunting lodge and there’s no way to control where the mice die, and no way to get them out once they do. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Apartheid was a police state, a system of surveillance and laws designed to keep black people under total control. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He tapped his watch, which was our remote control detonator. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

When it was done, her face was a carefully controlled mask; she would not meet Kaede’s eyes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, Percy, but every hero has one. If you don’t find it and learn to control it... well, they don't call it ‘fatal’ for nothing.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t need to control it if we give up the idea that we have to possess the Nut,” says Gale. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It is during this period of uncertainty that the backlash intensifies and a new form of racialized social control begins to take hold. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Learn to control yourself, missy. I don’t have time to be changing your sheets all day. Next time you have an accident I’ll let you lie in it and you’ll see what’s good for you.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Neither Mayor Clarkson nor the Guardians had the legal right to take control of Bush Hill. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

This system is better designed to create crime, and a perpetual class of people labeled criminals, rather than to eliminate crime or reduce the number of people under the system’s control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Shivering and sweating at once, I struggled to control the fearful frenzy rising in me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There, beside the locked door to the fan controls, sat four bags of cement. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Their thinking goes like this: since I control the car, I am the one keeping myself safe; since I have no control of the airplane, I am at the mercy of myriad external factors. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She clicked a button on her remote control, and a photograph appeared on the screen at the front of the room. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After so many years of relying on my father, my mother seemed happy to have some control. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

One could argue this result is a tragic, unforeseeable mistake, and that the goal was always crime control, not the creation of a racial undercaste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It’s easy—and wrong—to diagnose the problem as a violation of a grammatical rule called subject control. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

James and Victoria exchanged a surprised look at the mention of the word “home,” but Laurent controlled his expression better. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The controls inside the mech are beautifully simple—designed for each of us to understand it instantaneously. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A few of the masters struggled to control smiles. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The boy finally got control of his arms and pressed them against the sides of his head, twisting this way and that as if he were trying to screw the thing right off his neck. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“How much more do you owe, anak ko? I thought you had gotten things under control?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

And the judges know that the bigger the hop, the less in control the gymnast is; that’s why there’s a greater deduction. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He kept his voice kind but firm, controlled. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

"Won't that make it awkward for him to use the controls?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The frontispiece to that book shows Euclid controlling the gate which leads not only to knowledge of ballistics but to all philosophy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Subtly but naggingly, the situation was spinning out of control. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Words slowly began to come out of my mouth, but I had no control over them. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t understand how, but the internal magnet in this thing is out of control.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The development of the cyclotron was begun several years before these discoveries on faith that the availability of controlled atomic projectiles within the laboratory would lead to important scientific progress. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They knew the Cursed Toads’ magic was involved in controlling it after Petal’s death, but that first attack had been someone else’s magic entirely. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But his spine relaxed, and he continued his controlled breathing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But there is still a large effect of history remaining after one controls for the usual measures of good institutions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He gets a sense of control, yet you prescribe the limits. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I write a little word to tell you with how much satisfaction I watch your efforts to control your temper. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If some action is not taken, the citizens of this country will have to agitate for complete control of all radio broadcasting by the Federal Government.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

They were not his to worn about; they were under the drunken control of Mr. Palermo. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a problem with impulse control. Or so I’m quite frequently told.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Gentlemen, please. The situation is completely under control. You may retake your seats and put away your firearms.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

His whole body careened first right, then left; he was like a bony little bird flapping out of control. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He could imagine Mr. Grin blinded, fighting for control. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

And a growing number of tissue “donors” are suing for control of their samples and the DNA inside them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the vacuum created by the long transition to civilian control of atomic energy, Lawrence and his lab prospered. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He was staring straight at the set through the control room window. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“This happens a lot. I’ll drive the dog over to animal control.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She directs his hands, moves his head from left to right, in complete control of his every touch and kiss. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Washington simply did not have control of the government and was inadvertently lending credibility to the treacheries being hatched all around him. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t learned to control her Hopes yet. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told her she needed to educate herself, learn the warning signs, know how to bring down her blood pressure and control her blood sugar. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe he likes being in control of his own little universe, being able to arrange things how he wants, like a god or something? Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We knew that. But they thought medications would control the damage. She was doing so well. We thought...” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

But this wasn’t a safe, controlled environment I was learning in. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

To tell him and the boys that they needed to be more than a wild card—to control the explosion, because that was just as much a badge of strength. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

A front wheel dipped over the side of the canyon and Frankie lost control. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, but I think you do. That surge of power and delight, of confidence, of control. That sudden sense of the richness of the world. Its infinite possibility.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I always thought I hated having random people in control of my life.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Don’t talk about cutting welfare provision and giving tax breaks to the rich; talk about creating a Big Society where people are given control over their own destinies. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

To the empire trying to control trade and immigration across the seas. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I hold my silence, knowing the less I say the more control I have over the situation. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Cain had touched a nerve in her today—when he had mentioned her parents, she’d lost control entirely. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The matter is perfectly under control, Mr Stevens.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever was controlling him had all of Percy’s skill. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I am in control of myself again, still holding the knife. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“That smell... like snuffed-out souls. Thanatos is free, eh? Bah! It doesn’t matter. Gaea still controls the Doors of Death. Now, why have you brought me here, son of Mars?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Ophie took a deep breath and thought about what Aunt Rose had said that first night she spoke to Ophie—that some of the more powerful haints could take control of a person’s body. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But Mrs. Hawkins took control right away, moving the group quickly up to the stage, placing the little ones in front and the taller ones in the back. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Her talent isn’t for controlling other people’s opinions,” I say, “it’s for usually being right about people.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

And it just so happened that she was married to Hale’s nephew Ernest, a man who, as an agent wrote in a report, “is absolutely controlled by Hale.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

This was because even though the war was over, the government wanted to control every last thing they did, until the last possible moment. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“If Gaea has that much power,” Annabeth asked, “couldn’t she control where we end up?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

One of Morrison’s associates told the bureau that Morrison had admitted to him that he had killed Stepson so that he could marry Tillie and get control of her invaluable estate. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Frank tried to control the beating of his heart. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In a perfect world, an economist could run a controlled experiment just as a physicist or a biologist does: setting up two samples, randomly manipulating one of them, and measuring the effect. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed that if the government couldn’t control Paul through intimidation, it would try to control her through incarceration. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Rain lashes me, dotting my view, and I realize that the storm on the horizon has now reached us, one thing I hadn’t changed during my control of the surroundings. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I was six, my grandfather had inserted a medicine into my skin that protected me from snakebite and enabled me to control snakes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

By then it’s too late, for once the wizard’s evil is inside your body, it controls you forever. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

After a short while, plane and ship under control, she looked again at the children in uniforms. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she merely ground her teeth as she stepped out to the porch and made her way around the side of the house through the nico- tiana growing all wild and out of control. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I hear someone at the control room desks say, “There he is,” to one of her coworkers, and I scan the screens to see what she’s talking about. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

This gave him control over the volume and pitch, and produced a deep, solid bang capable of shaking the door, the frame, and the wall. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

My heart beat in rhythm with the swaying of shoulders in front of me; out of control. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

When I do see well enough to walk, my lungs yearn for enough air, and being short of breath, it takes a laborious effort to control my balance. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I know now there are things out of our control. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

We who were in uniform controlled nearly every aspect of their lives. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Political complexity was greatest on Tonga and Hawaii, where the powers of hereditary chiefs approximated those of kings elsewhere in the world, and where land was controlled by the chiefs, not by the commoners. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I could control it, but the plates of flowers are now blue smears from my near tears. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“You wouldn’t—” I wasn’t sure I had the control to put this question—“mind if I wound up head of the class, would you?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stop letting your mom control your entire life,” Emery says in her pretend-robot voice, which always makes me laugh. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Most of those best fitted to develop natural controls and assist in putting them into effect have been too busy laboring in the more exciting vineyards of chemical control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

That she could be both completely vulnerable and totally in control was mind-blowing. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They could also buy their way into opera houses, most of which were nevertheless built, owned and controlled by rich patrons, chiefly for their own benefit and that of their friends and hangers-on. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If you back out of a burning building, even if the fire is too far out of control for you to do anything, you’ll be shot the next day for turning back. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Even today the artist remains a magician whose work can mystify and move us—an embarrassing fact to civilized people, who do not readily relinquish their veneer of rational control. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come in, mission control,” Fern said in her walkie-talkie voice, then used another voice to say, “This is mission control, over.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

You lose control of your trunk muscles, so that you cannot sit up straight. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad asked, openly annoyed that I was on the couch with the remote control before noon on a weekday. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The voice simply floated overhead like a movie narrator’s, as if a single mind controlled all the creatures. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Benson took a deep breath to control himself, and started again in a much calmer voice. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a long several minutes, we regained control of ourselves. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The idea of irrevocable death without the controlled hand of a scythe was too much to bear for a world that had conquered mortality. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I'm so glad I’ve been given the gift of control over my emotions, because I just can’t even imagine how much it would have hurt me otherwise. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

After a while, the Army stopped writing to the Friedmans, and it made other plans to wrest control of code breaking from Fabyan. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The longtime champion often lapsed into time pressure, barely making the control. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Erasmus was in control of his own life, as Charles could be if he stayed a bachelor, too. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Triumvirate fell apart, Octavian would be ready to take control. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Whenever insecticides are applied only minimum dosages are used — barely enough to control the pest without avoidable harm to beneficial species. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Defendants are typically denied meaningful legal representation, pressured by the threat of lengthy sentences into a plea bargain, and then placed under formal control—in prison or jail, on probation or parole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When hitting wasn’t effective anymore, he moved on to control. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Both of these examples suggest that extremely effective control of many kinds of unwanted vegetation might be achieved by paying more attention to the role of plant-eating insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

My mind and body thrashed out of control. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

She’d buried two water bowls, a TV remote control, a pizza box, a ziplock bag of Legos, three Frisbees, and two of my homework folders there. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But he could never bring the fear back again, only another storm could do that, or something else quite unpredictable, and over which he himself had no control. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The plate is balanced on a small cushion so that while carving, the artist can hold the burin steady and swivel the plate, allowing for greater control. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She tells herself that people older than her have things under control. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But then I took control of myself; such an action would be unwise and irresponsible, not to mention dangerous. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a long time since hed lost control and made something explode. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I retreated to the control room and shut the door. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile the federal government had spent about $375,000 for control work and additional thousands had been provided by the state. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

We got fired at on the way in, and for a while the tail was in flames and she couldn’t control it properly, and she made me bail out before she tried to land. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Not when I feel like I have so little control over my life as it is. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The remote control didn’t work, so Cade left the television tuned to a sports channel with the sound turned down. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Actors circle the microphone in front of the control room. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

His face had been struggling to stay calm as he listened to me, but now he was crying but trying to control himself. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government suggested that Bantu Authorities would free the people from the control of white magistrates, but this was a smoke screen for the state’s undermining of democracy and promotion of tribal rivalries. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sails didn’t pull as well but the boat still made four knots and he had more control. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how I did that at the river. I’m not sure I can control the cannons from this far away.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think you’ll have to bother much with the controls.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

With the protection of federal troops, African Americans began to vote in large numbers and seize control, in some areas, of the local political apparatus. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I must control it, Reynie thought, which definitely reminded him of Mr. Curtain. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

His hands worked the control sphere, and he felt a shock travel through the floor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You feeling good enough to control the winds? I need a lift.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I’m sorry, but it’s not like I control the actions of other people. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Bhalla prescribed a half-dozen drugs to lower Wilson’s cholesterol, prevent clotting, and control his blood pressure. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Harry had never seen Lupin lose control before; he felt as though he was intruding upon something private, indecent. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Of course, if they could control mesarthium, they would be free, and safe, not to mention a force to be reckoned with. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

How eloquent he had been that night, how sweet the rhythm of his words as he went to the very edge of emotional outrage but never crossed over into it, never lost control. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Territorial empires are tightly controlled but costly to maintain; hegemonic empires are inexpensive to maintain, because the original local rulers incur the costs of administration, but the loose tie between master and vassal encourages rebellion. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She wanted the peace that came with that sense of control. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I wonder if she’s remembering the last time she was on mind control. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot control it completely yet, but sometimes when I’m busy reading or working on a problem, I get a feeling of intense clarity. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

When she finally got her laughter under control, she said, “I really need to set up a filter to edit out that laugh of mine.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

If they couldn’t control things either, the Code Green would be called and supervisors were to send all available officers to the trouble spot. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hate it when you get like this. You’ve got to learn to control yourself! Now QUIT!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I tried really hard to control it, but I just couldn’t help it. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

And she could control him—she knew that. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Black Tortoise blew on it, a calm, controlled gust of air. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Nothing major happened, but he knows he wasn’t in control of his body. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Though really we’d had no control over anything, somehow in the end it felt as if we’d timed it all perfectly. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Most of the time Mom is steady, careful, and totally in control—in other words, the polar opposite of my dad. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Like Truman, Churchill feared that the Soviets were establishing a zone of total control over Central Europe. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A completely new method of control is undoubtedly needed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The family stood huddled outside the control tower of Smythe Field, a washed-out naval air station outside of Atlanta, Georgia. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he could lose control and smash the burrito in Phineas’s face, Percy said, “Come on, guys.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“When a prince wandered into their...realm, Blancaflor saved him from her horrible father’s control.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When their Pe-2 was again hit by enemy gunfire in battle on September 2, 1943, Sasha found she couldn’t control the plane to glide to earth for a crash landing. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“If Peake and Rivers are successful, we will control the better part of Cape Wrath,” argued Strickland. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I had just control enough to stay out of his room, to let him struggle back into the bed by himself. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone else goes about their business without even realizing the subtle, significant shift in the NeuroLink that can now control their lives. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I try to control the way my tongue moves in my mouth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Miles, who turned to the scoreboard controls and forgot about me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

On one hand, it shows you can control and focus your attention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

How could there be a god who could control all that? The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I am sure it is no small thing for a prince of Faerie to accept being controlled, especially by me, but he nods. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then it was like he couldn’t control himself. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Proteins enabled chemical reactions, speeding and controlling the pace of biochemical processes, thereby acting as the switchboards of the biological world. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

We had no control over anything anyway, so what was the point? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I look at Mama, trying to will her to control my father. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“You’re only responsible for your own actions. You can’t control how someone else reacts to what you do. You made a choice. Stand by it.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Four other officers were overpowered as well, and thirty-two SHU inmates, the worst men in the prison, were soon out of their cells, terrifying their captives and destroying the Box’s control center. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It took control of you. The goddess sent me to give you a little bit of help to make you expel it.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

His hands were trembling out of control and adrenaline flowed through his body in giant, unseen torrents. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

School, control, distrust, and doubt, they all get shoved behind the hurt on her face. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

By their very nature chemical controls are self-defeating, for they have been devised and applied without taking into account the complex biological systems against which they have been blindly hurled. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Connor shrugged his shoulders and blinked, but it made me happy to see that, despite being out in public, his tics weren’t completely out of control. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As Gary Gaines drove along the dark ribbon of highway past Bobs Creek and Fools Creek after the San Angelo game, he knew he had no control over anything now. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Senator Oscar Diaz is in California speaking at a rally for gun control today, Alex punches the button for the fifth floor instead. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But the unification of Europe has resisted the efforts of such determined conquerors as Charlemagne, Napoleon, and Hitler; even the Roman Empire at its peak never controlled more than half of Europe’s area. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Having no natural controls in this new territory, they spread prodigiously, eventually occupying about 60 million acres. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Captain Short felt in control now, on the hunt. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Here he was powerless, nobody to control, nobody to blame. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He thought it was a poker bluff in a high-stakes game for control of the virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you cannot control yourself, leave. As you well know, we don’t have the resources to hunt down runaway teens. Perhaps your people ought to get in the habit of looking over their own.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was painted red and yellow, a light, single-engine aircraft with a figure in dark glasses and helmet hunched over the controls. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I nod, grateful that Mae has taken control of the situation. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“The lock face itself has been ripped out—probably vandalized sometime in the last few centuries. But I should be able to control the mechanism inside, if I can...” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was a vicious, undead killing force, barely controlled by the power of Mars. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I can’t even control my own dreams, she wanted to scream. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She looked straight at Jason—straight into the eyes of the thing that was controlling him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Aside from the pumpkins and plants, the glass structure contained a generator to power the lights and the climate control. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Behind the compound are a few tall towers with bulges at the top—I don’t know why, but I think of the control room when I see them, and wonder if that’s what they are. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He lifted one finger, as though with one finger he could control the wind and the waves that hurled a ship, a crew, and three hundred tons of cargo toward the waiting rocks. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere a police siren wails thinly, up and down, up and down, regular tempo, crisis under control, just like Gerhard. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The boy who controlled them was dressed in the same way though his cap badge was golden. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I love dribbling without looking down, the feel, the sense of trust, of control, almost as though the ball were on a leash. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

"I'm on a ship with no control panel," he said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I have this mysterious vision issue under control, I’m about twenty rows past Jeffrey, so I’ve missed the moment for a quick reply. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shall set up a mighty country under the control of the Organization of Colored Leaders and Scholars. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The model of an officer in total control was a lie, Smith said. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had actually thought that they themselves had something to do with what was happening and were somehow in control of their own destinies. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rushed to the press box to administer some image control but met a hostile audience. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the couple saw through her ruse to get around rent control. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I seated myself in the captain’s chair, I spotted a silver control bracelet in a clear case on the wall. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

After the German surrender, he brought one more argument to the table: using the bomb on Japan would fatally compromise America’s moral and humanitarian standing, undermining any efforts to create a workable international control regime. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

On the television set is a brass statue of Shiva as Nataraja, the cosmic lord of the dance, who controls the motions of the universe and the flow of time. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It takes all my control to hold my tongue. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When my father was in my life, wrestling me for control of that life, I perceived him with the eyes of a soldier, through a fog of conflict. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Well, he’s right at the age where he’s learning so much. He grabs toys when we hold them in front of him—my father says he’s learning small-muscle control. And he’s really cute.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

"They also want to make war when it is not necessary. As long as military men control the country you are always going to have a war." Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, its agricultural extension service does not recommend spraying as a community method of control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He wanted her to marry a complete stranger just to keep the man’s province under the control of the King’s Guard. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Marshall Laird, who has described this incident, compares chemical control to a treadmill; once we have set foot on it we are unable to stop for fear of the consequences. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Becky followed me down the hall, trying to control her voice. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she could control nothing else in her life, for a few seconds she would control this, the very breaths she took. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Back then, the only thing black people could control was their own behavior. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Yorktown’s computers had just received new software that was controlling the engines. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

As voices were raised and emotions became heated, the argument began to spiral out of control. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

We had better do a better job of controlling our young people. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Dell looked like the one with a control problem. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Some premonition of trouble ahead might have been gained by the failure to control a typhus epidemic in Spain in 1948. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I am ashamed by my lack of control, but Mother lets me rage. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He couldn't remember when he'd last lost control, but he felt himself falling apart. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But the prison authorities wielded the classification system as a weapon against political prisoners, threatening to lower our hard-won classifications in order to control our behavior. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps our descendants will be able to control or moderate stellar evolution. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the corner of his desk were two stacks of papers that he still had to transcribe into his border control notebook before he could leave for the evening. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He snapped the back of the camera shut and chose the appropriate shutter and aperture settings, which controlled the amount of light the film would be exposed to. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t afraid to take control, to tell me how he felt. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Hardly able to control their grins, they stood like a gate blocking the path. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Or to control the manifestation of the dark side. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She was white and she gripped the table with her hands to control her shaking. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The advice was taken; some beds were planted with marigolds, some left without as controls. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

With the fear gone, or controlled, something about the forest drew him; and that was a surprise as well. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

About a quarter of a century ago Dr. Knipling startled his colleagues by proposing a unique method of insect control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He looked at it as something he could protect and control and educate—and when he caught his first glimpse of the kouros, Hoving was ready. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

You just have to connect up with one of the runners who control a space of blocks, and then you can take bets. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lady Constance stood and attempted to control her great round skirt, which bobbed around her comically. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

When I reached the cockpit controls, I threw the throttle wide open, and the descending swarm of Sixer gunships banked hard to follow me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Squaring up required strong wrists and a fine degree of motor control, and Joe just couldn’t seem to get the hang of it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Never before had he seen her lose control like this; she looked quite demented. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

His clothes and haircut—Mao suits and a short military trim with no sideburns— were the same as his grandfather’s when he seized control of North Korea in 1945. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

"If there is an emergency, he's the guy you want controlling the ship." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if my parents’ God, their whole belief system, is just something concocted by a bunch of scientists to keep us under control? Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Strict controls would limit what visitors could be charged for everything—from rooms at luxury hotels like the Adlon to the bratwurst sold by street vendors all over town. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"This fellow has worked out the whole thing. It's up to us who are the dominant race to watch out or these other races will have control of things." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

With this unique ability to penetrate the unknown and rare talent for expressing it through art, the artist-shaman gained control over the forces hidden in human beings and nature. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry. We can’t just take any dog, ma’am. We are not the county animal control. This is a private, nonprofit shelter.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But it was a subdued agony now, a sore I was somehow able to control and keep within limits. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Your right hand cannot let go, even for a second, or the helicopter will tilt out of control, up-down or left-right. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last two allow a writer an additional lever of control over what the reader will treat as given and what she will treat as new. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Colonel Cathcart almost turned the jeep over when he slammed the brakes on at the control tower. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In 1939 a control program was launched, directed at speeding up the spread of the disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It takes a lot to set me off; I’ve been thoroughly trained to control my emotions. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

She very carefully kept her own excitement under control. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“How?” the man asked, trying to control his breathing, stalling for time. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Although I often urged others not to worry about what they could not control, I was unable to take my own advice. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Soviet Union controlled East Germany, where it installed a Communist government under a dictatorship. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The 1929 women’s National Air Race was nicknamed the Powder Puff Derby, as if women couldn't take the controls of an aircraft without worrying about messing up their makeup. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

"Then you had best learn to control them. I will not have the city plundered." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And again.The orderliness of Mozart made him feel as though he had control of his own life. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

From an adult’s point of view, I was destructive and out of control, but as a child I didn’t think of it that way. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And then she closed up and her control came back. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

That way, he says, he’s in control of the music. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

You are one born with the power to control that which is in the sealed room. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was an old-timer and apparently had thought of a way to assuage his own irritating feelings of loss of control. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He aims to control the movement uptown. He wants to be a dictator!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Biological control has achieved some of its most spectacular successes in the area of curbing unwanted vegetation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Were fine, Albert. I have everything under control. Clayton’s fine. Just fine.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Of course, everyone is like, da da da, evil corporations, oh they’re so had, we all say that, and we all know they control everything. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reverend Mokitimi, the top of whose head did not even reach Dr. Wellington’s shoulders, said very respectfully, “Dr. Wellington, everything is under control and I will report to you tomorrow.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not control the little devil sitting on my left shoulder. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

However, once installed, these leaders were never able to establish control. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

I could tell my mother was trying to control her temper. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It is what physicians used to be engaged in at the bedside of patients with diphtheria, meningitis, poliomyelitis, lobar pneumonia, and all the rest of the infectious diseases that have since come under control. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment he had control of himself. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Here you are, after all, at the top of your profession, every aspect of your domain well under control. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“No way intellectual property will be controlled,” he said. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard my voice growing shrill, but I couldn’t control it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the advice of agricultural experts and insecticide manufacturers, they chose heptachlor as the control agent. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But the river was still flowing against them, so it must be going underneath, and if there was any mechanism, it must be controlled from the bank. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

During the Great Discord, right after the dead began to walk and before the Army finally got the shambler plague under control, the building was empty. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She thought about the day they’d fallen into the Grand Canyon—the first time she’d learned that Jason could control the air. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He had to control the winds, not the other way around. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They come to Phnom Penh to escape the Khmer Rouge, who still control parts of the countryside. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m still in control of my mind and I have medication and I am going to make this happen. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

How naïve I had been to think I could control any of it. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The game began, and Felix played point guard—a position that allowed him to control the tempo. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Frank leaned against a tree, trying to control his vertigo. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I glared at him in alarm, but he seemed well in control, his jaw relaxed as he grinned, his eyes bright only with humor. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I squeeze the brakes hard and struggle to control the bike on the gravel shoulder. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

In a minute, people will be here to do damage control on Peeta’s condition and the words that came out of his mouth. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t been in control of myself in that mountain. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in a new form. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We are still beset by plain diseases, and we do not control them; they are loose on their own, afflicting us unpredictably and haphazardly. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is involuntary. It is outside oneself. How can you control memory? You have not controlled mine!” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Citing Oppie’s habit of dabbling in politics, the Manhattan Project’s security apparatus, which was not yet entirely under Groves’s control, refused to clear him for war work. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The current system of control depends on black exceptionalism; it is not disproved or undermined by it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“You should. You helped with its design. Retractable cables for controlling multiple captives. And the barbs, of course.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The elegant woman’s serene face twitched with controlled laughter. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

We may not be able to control it if you do not help me finish it off before sundown. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the Indians approached final victory, tension rose in the fishing industry, then almost entirely controlled by whites. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The cities of Germany are completely independent, they control little surrounding territory, they obey the emperor when they please, and they fear neither him nor any other nearby power. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

At a signal from our guide, the control officer remotely opened an empty cell so that we could take a look. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reports said that the blaze had begun in her office, in the early hours of the morning, and that the medicines and chemicals that she stored there caused it to burn quickly out of control. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how much longer I can continue to keep this yearning under control. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Charlie ignores me and keeps messing with the remote control to get his movie to start playing. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

In real life, Brennar will know right away when he’s no longer able to control his avatar. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You are correct to say that you are strong-willed. I cannot control your will. But there are a few things I can control.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He looked at me with barely controlled anger. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I willed my sword to hit back and to go after the head that controlled the other swords. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The MS control the tops of freight trains operating north of the Rio Suchiate, where many migrants going to the United States begin their trek through Mexico. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Petey flipped the switch on his control panel, and there was a crackle of static electricity in the air as the trap powered down. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It really is true that you can control other people about as easily as you can control the weather. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He had always been a nervous and impulsive person, but lately his emotions were almost out of control. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

A beep from my pod’s control panel pierces my ears. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She never has a good reason—I think she just likes to be in control. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I admitted my problem, then I lied again, saying that I had it under control, that I was seeking help. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a few nights ago, when they thought I was in bed, I heard my parents talking about him getting “out of control like those American boys.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Mark took a deep breath, feeling like the situation was back under some kind of control. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

When something’s out of your control, you bring order to the things you can. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Lee said uneasily, “I told you once when you asked me that it was all in yourself. I told you you could control it—if you wanted.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before that year, only limited use had been made of organic insecticides for the control of the boll weevil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

We were almost back to the Labyrinth entrance when I heard the loudest bellow in the world—the voice of Kronos, coming back into control. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He shoved Pong back into a seat and wedged himself at the controls, the wheel in one hand, throttle in the other. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

In case of attack by an inmate—or any violent situation we could not control—we were to pull the pin out of the top of our radio by tugging on the lanyard. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, since he was considered effeminate and a man who let himself be controlled by his mother, he was despised, and as a result the army plotted against him and murdered him. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Little Rock School Board now demanded belligerent students be brought under control. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Fugees soon controlled the ball again, making crisp passes and moving within range of the goal. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

‘I know. You can’t plan for feelings. Like with Percy, and your future - you can’t control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it’ll be okay anyway.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“The Court must insist,” Judge Hunt said, trying to regain control of his courtroom. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how he manages to control them at work, or even if he does, but when he’d get home, he’d let them loose. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He’s cradling his Dreamers book in one hand now, and the shuttle’s control in the other. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Erin plops onto the couch and takes the remote control from Pop’s hand, because he’s passed-out drunk again with my grandmother’s rosary beads wrapped tightly around his left fist like brass knuckles. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It can be objected that I am speaking of political freedom in spiritual terms, but the political institutions of any nation are always menaced and are ultimately controlled by the spiritual state of that nation. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Each was housed in a large rectangular wooden box containing a cathode picture tube with a set of crude game controls mounted in front of it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Following the Civil War, it was unclear what institutions, laws, or customs would be necessary to maintain white control now that slavery was gone. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. van D. is trying to control himself. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

His father had bought it at a garage sale, and the remote control was missing, so he had to lean over to change the channel. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

In the year following 1939, the German army, under Adolf Hitler, had taken control of almost every country in Europe. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It’s like breathing—something that happens over which I have no control. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s that girl who can see it’s not my fault that a car with my mother in it lost control no matter what I did with this jerkoff beforehand. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

For the system to succeed—that is, for it to achieve the political goals described in chapter 1—black people must be labeled criminals before they are formally subject to control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Have you any control over yourself?” he said. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I struggled to get my expression back under control, more than slightly embarrassed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I can’t control everything in life, Bongo,” I said gently “And if I could, what fun would that be? But this little thing. This wish of Samar’s. I can make it happen.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“The Allegiant raided their first weapons storehouse a few days ago,” the young woman sitting at the control room desk nearest to us says over her shoulder. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

What if there were five genes that governed height, say, or seven genes that controlled the shape of a nose? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

My voice is loose and out of control and doesn't even sound like me. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

If she could only keep her emotions under control, there would be a good chance that she could really help him. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“Here, put your hands on the controls, your feet on die rudder pedals, and I’ll show you what I mean.” Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

In every great change in the lives of African Americans we see the hand of events that were beyond our individual control, events that were not unalloyed goods. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She spoke with remorse about how her life had spiraled out of control when she started abusing drugs. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The whole problem of pesticide poisoning is enormously complicated by the fact that a human being, unlike a laboratory animal living under rigidly controlled conditions, is never exposed to one chemical alone. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

While walking along the streets words would spill from my lips in a mumble over which I had little control. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had to stop often to fight off laugh attacks, slapping at each other, avoiding each other’s eyes until we could control ourselves. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The bosses controlled everything: hours, pace, and wages. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It makes her feel like everything, including her own body, is out of her control. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“The boy must be meeting his friend,” Minli realized, and unable to control her curiosity, she crept to the window to peek. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He stood at his control panel about sixty feet to Percy’s left. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She needed to get a grip on this thing, whatever it was, before it got out of control. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A lifetime of hurt, a lifetime of proving himself, a lifetime of anger controlled his muscles now. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

And as the Dutch and Portuguese battled to control Pernambuco, many Africans escaped and created a kingdom of their own called Palmares. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Not really. Eventually, maybe. But not the initial amplitude; that’s outside conscious control. If it weren’t—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

But his reducing, combined with the blunt-instrument character of diabetes treatment in the 1930s, made controlling his blood sugar extremely difficult. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could control whatever I wanted to watch. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

In railroad offices in Mexico City, in a large control room, computers plot train routes with blue and green lines, and at least once every six months the screens flicker, then black out. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The crawlway was a narrow, square, cold tunnel hollowed out beneath the flight controls, and a large man like Yossarian could squeeze through only with difficulty. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“They must be trying to get the fire under control,” Frankie said, slapping the tuxedo guy on the back. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Most infectious diseases have now been brought under a reasonable degree of control and some have been practically eliminated. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was like railway wheels going round in my head, trains of thought running out of control, couplers snapping. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Can you imagine if it had gotten out of control? A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I could see he was close to it, but he somehow controlled himself; other times, he’d quietly shrug, or react like he hadn’t noticed a thing. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

All have this in common: they are biological solutions, based on understanding of the living organisms they seek to control, and of the whole fabric of life to which these organisms belong. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to control him. He’s just so stubborn.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Though they may harness winds and currents, they are unable to control these natural forces, and are always constrained by their physical design. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He struggled to control himself; then he heard Britten talking. “. . . got to get hold of that Jan.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sensation of skin on skin set off a riot of revulsion in Kaz’s head, but because he’d been anticipating the attack, he managed to control the sickness that overcame him. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“White America” is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

What I can control is that she’s not going to be my problem anymore. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He emptied all his handheld video games and Josh's remote control cars, and called his grandma to tell her that all he wanted for his birthday in November was AA batteries. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

As the prison staff proudly explained to them, it was the separate system and the use of force that enabled the strict control they saw. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crusade to create a chemically sterile, insect-free world seems to have engendered a fanatic zeal on the part of many specialists and most of the so-called control agencies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was suddenly just like in camp, where the kids went wild and the parents couldn’t control them. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It is worth noting that natural forces had been heavily relied on for control of the corn borer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

"Remote override takes priority over any onboard controls. It assumes there's been a disaster and the ship's control panels can't be trusted." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seconds ticked by while I fought for control. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But for the remaining 30 percent of my time, CF controls my life. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

After five years my body became so strong that I could control even the dilations of the pupils inside my irises. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I can just gain control of that dragon... Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Two boys laugh when one car bangs into another, spinning out of control until it crashes against the wall. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And he stared at Robert, who was slumped over in a La-Z-Boy with a can of Bud in one hand and a remote control in the other, just watching the static on his TV screen. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

But I was a man now and master of my rage, able to control the surging emotions. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The economy of the sanitation method is stressed by New York experts in Dutch elm disease control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Defendants are typically denied meaningful legal representation, pressured by the threat of a lengthy sentence into a plea bargain, and then placed under formal control—in prison or jail, on probation or parole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t the one who needed help, because she was the one in control. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

To keep them in control was not difficult. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

This was especially true of the cases against Conexco—a shadowy behemoth that controlled the rumrunning traffic on the West and Gulf Coasts. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

If she had controlled her emotions, we never would have fought the night of the Moon Festival. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He stumbled forward like he couldn’t control his own body. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

With the help of King Herod of Judea, Octavian’s troops captured Pelusium and took control of the Egyptian frontier. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Father built controls for the vertical rudders and the warping mechanism of the wing following the design of the Wrights. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not look at her, but returned the pressure, now taking deep, sharp gulps of the night air, trying to steady himself, trying to regain control. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The Nightbeast was being controlled, much like the Dimblewits had been, and the first attack on Thorn’s brother, Petal, and indeed every attack after, had not been of its own free will. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You need a real manager to make sure this doesn’t get outta control and that it works to your advantage.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

There are some things that are beyond our power to control. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It happened early this morning,” she began, struggling to control her emotions. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably because it was the first generally practiced method of biological control, this setting of one insect against another is widely but erroneously thought to be the only alternative to chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I have to control my body to keep myself from rocking back and forth like those kids you see in the Orphans of the World infomercials or whatever. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

So great was the love of the people for this wise chief that they could not control their sorrow. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Brian let go of the controls and moved his feet away from the pedals as the pilot put his hands on the wheel. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Take, for instance, the room in his new lab next to the control center where he’s been examining the brain of the teacher wearing the EEG cap. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

When these came, as they later did, kings who gained their legitimacy from their claims to control the weather would face angry questioning from their subjects. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I was so small that I had to stand on an overturned wooden box to reach the controls of the machine. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

And a robot, unconcerned with beam, focus, or Earth, or anything but his Master was at the controls. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“I really thought I could control him,” I said, leaning my forehead against the cool window. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I felt the wild terror again, and I tried to control it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

A wasp imported from Japan established complete control of an insect attacking eastern apple orchards. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He forced a smile, but it twisted, out of his control. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

But adults know that life frustrates meticulous planners and makes a mockery of control, so onstage, that is what Volpe takes away from Wayne. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She has learned that she can control her emotions by thinking of her chest cavity as an enormous box with a chain lock. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was hard to find words when you were adopted and your brother wasn’t, and it was pretty clear that you had been chosen because of things beyond your control. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

No one from the TLA had stepped forward to take control, and the capital was falling apart. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Such natural control needs to be utilized to the fullest extent. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But clearly the woman’s control was exhausted; she began to cry. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Roger that, Houston" was the reply from the launch control director in Florida. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, those who had lived on the island a long time knew that the storm’s outcome was beyond their control. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I feel like I have lost control of what I have become. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Alex felt a familiar wave of resentment, which he ordinarily fought to keep under control, but this morning welcomed as an old, reassuring presence. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She spins so out of control, she makes herself fall, and I give her a hand, helping her back up. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Whenever Conrad and I pleaded with them for new crayons or toys from the five-and-dime, they said we needed to control our wants because God would take care of us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Communications are down in Seven, Ten, and Twelve. But Eleven has control of transportation now, so there’s at least a hope of them getting some food out.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“More than a pilot loves air traffic control, baby. You still love me?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It’s true you might not get to control your funeral, but sometimes you do get to choose your death. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enrique allows himself to doze only on trains farther north, where the gangsters no longer control the tops of the trains. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to make Granddad feel in control when his world was spinning because Gran had died. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Yet the sexual impulse is tremendously strong in this phase, controlling the entire personality, subjecting all other drives to its imperative. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

But there is too much to control between the heat and the rain and Marco in her arms. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Now...can you make good on those bold words? Can you control what you ask for, or will you be torn apart?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And then he kicks the back of the seat so hard I almost lose control of the wheel. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want the demigods under her command to think she was controlling them, or that she’d become a leader because she had some special magic. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

By the time the flames engulfed the wooden hut and licked up into open air, Cole had lost all control. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The chariot was swinging wildly to and fro; the pace was faster; he had lost control. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the descent was gradual and controlled and even. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s that feeling of falling when you know without question that you’ve lost control of your car or made a mistake that’s beyond repair. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

By 1 A.M., the gendarmes have lost control, and no trains have arrived or departed in over four hours. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Rage controlled Cole’s hand as he drew back, paused for a split second, and then flipped the lighted match inside the shelter. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I said each word slowly, carefully controlling my anger. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

"It was like flying a cow," Martinez grumbled, his hands racing over his controls. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They brought their protest songs and their demands to the Establishment, because the Establishment was in control. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It receives radio waves from the depths of space, focusing them onto the feed arm antenna high above the dish, which is in turn electronically connected to the control room, where the signal is analyzed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, under almost perfect control, I got a broom and began savagely to attack the sand that was stuck like cement in the corner of the living room. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could no longer control his disdain for those who opposed his policies and he lashed out. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

When the Portuguese regained control of the area, the Dutch fled to the Caribbean, bringing knowledge of how to grow sugar with them. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She had stopped sobbing and stood now, her trembling under control, hands in fists. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Moreover, black children didn’t measure up even when controlling for a wide array of variables. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I am shocked that he has actually asked me to take control of the ship. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Behind the control room glass, Houseman monitored the rehearsal so that he could give his impressions to Welles. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He had often used his position as president of The Vigils to keep control of Archie, to prevent him from going overboard on assignments. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1899, the Dukes controlled all major textile mills in the Durham area. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

So every once in a while I really lose control. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Everything about our online personas is filtered through our avatars, which allows us to control how we look and sound to others. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes resistance develops so rapidly that the ink is scarcely dry on a report hailing successful control of a species with some specified chemical when an amended report has to be issued. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I was out of control and on a rampage! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It makes me feel, I don’t know. Like I’m in control. I get to choose who gets to see me. How they see me. I don’t think it’s for everyone,” I said, and shrugged. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

After the overthrow of Mossadegh, public opinion in Iran was so against the Brits taking total control of the country's oil supply again that IOP was the United Kingdom's next best option. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

All of us kids in the camp could see that our parents were no longer in control. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The drawback of the system was that the peasants had no control over where their strips would be. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

This is the irony: Even though I wake up in a different body every morning, I’ve always felt in some way that I am in control. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I controlled my voice so that it would not quiver. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like I temporarily lost control of my own mouth. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I held the Breathalyzer in my hand, a sleek, silver gadget about the size of a small remote control. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Taking full advantage of all the archived information that was never more than a few mouse clicks away, Jesse had strong ideas and theories about everything—the size of government, genetic engineering, gun control. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we do, and if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I had to want to have control over them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We live by making transformations of energy into words, storing it up, and releasing it in controlled explosions. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things fall into categories of black and white—bad mood, bad temper, loses control, feels sad, feels blue. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I laughed so wildly, then, that the Hauptsturmführer had to clear his throat to remind me to control myself. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The central question for racial justice advocates is this: are we serious about ending this system of control, or not? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Yes, it was a prison designed by our oppressors, but it also gave us a sense of self-determination and control. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

‘We could land on the deck of that ship. The Greeks control the sea.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

His blind left pupil seemed especially transient and beyond his control this morning. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

This eidolon in the wolf helmet had shamed him, controlled him, and made him attack New Rome. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The Osage territory, however, had been allotted, and much of the surface land where the murders had occurred, including the slaying of Anna Brown, was no longer under the tribe’s control. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The entomologist, whose specialty is insects, is not so qualified by training, and is not psychologically disposed to look for undesirable side effects of his control program. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

With his right, he took the front rudder controls. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I will not be in control six days from now. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I mean that when I’m the one doing everyone else’s dirty work, and everyone is afraid of me, I feel safe. I control what happens and to who.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He patted the control sphere, which was steaming in a bad way. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I like to think that knowing might have kept me from endangering you, that having understood and acknowledged the anger, I could control it. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The new cells resulting from these divisions have the same ability to escape control, and in time enough such cells have accumulated to constitute a cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It hits me, again, that she walked these halls, watched the city on the screens in the control room. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I looked down at the remote control, then back up at the television. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Sadly, the bridge is already under insurgent control due to questionable strategizing by my bereft cohort.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

"I'm not forgetting Storm. She controls the weather with her head; it's still just thinking. Which is about all she could do in those boots." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I am in complete control of this world. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

But Zeus had now got the thunder and lightning under his own control. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t get why they have it out for us. I mean, when they were trying to mind control themselves an army, sure, but now? Seems useless.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not in control; my nervous energy is running the show. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Although the role of chief was a venerable and esteemed one, it had, even seventy-five years ago, become debased by the control of an unsympathetic white government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Controlling the tense of an argument is a very good way of controlling its direction because it is, essentially, a way of controlling which branch of oratory you find yourself in. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Because civil penalties and sanctions imposed on people with criminal records applied only to a few, they never operated as a comprehensive system of control over any racially or ethnically defined population. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He saw clearly now how those men had used him to keep poor blacks and poor whites fighting each other—while they kept control of the reins of power. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Soldiers had to take control of the chaos. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And they are—when they attempt to masquerade as men. They aren’t capable of right thinking, of human morality. They are meant to be controlled.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The pilot continued to work the controls, ignoring the chaotic scene behind her. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I was getting there, slowly, and maybe not entirely surely, but there was something almost delicious about feeling the same powerful swell of abilities that had once terrorized me corked and controlled. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“She’ll either grow out of it or learn to control it. It’s a minor issue.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I had to keep my emotions under better control. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And there’s a breathing in the black, for these huge things that control the day and inhabit the night are living things and have presence, and perhaps feeling, and, somewhere in deep-down perception, perhaps communication. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice was breathy as she tried to control her anger. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

For instance, any changes with respect to drugs and controlled substances or illegal immigration could affect the number of persons arrested, convicted and sentenced, thereby potentially reducing demand for correctional facilities to house them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mareth’s bat was losing control, Henry was unarmed, Perdita was unconscious, her bat was gasping for air on the ground, Boots was screeching, and Shed was insane with pain and fear. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to the brick-colored final coat there were others: dabs of green to control redness, pinks to add blush, blues above the eyes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

What kind of sorcerer could control elements and sound, then vanish into thin air? Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The scene inside me is one I don’t want to replay, but the remote control is not in my hand. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

And now that she was doing something difficult and familiar and never quite predictable, namely lying, she felt a sort of mastery again, the same sense of complexity and control that the alethiometer gave her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

This isn’t a movie about a girl who breaks away from her controlling mother, either. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It’s estimated that South Korean businesses control between sixty and eighty percent of that market, including distribution, retail, and, increasingly, manufacturing. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The staff members were always on guard to control these sporadic outbursts. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I felt little control over my arms and legs. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to do what everyone else was doing, was an instinctive reaction. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As soon as Welles spoke his last word and removed his headphones, a CBS staffer told him he had a call in the control booth. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I have enough control in my fist and thumbs to push the buttons so I can change the station, and I’m really glad of that! Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

All efforts to reform or control our desires are therefore pointless. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Even when controlling for the income, age, education, and health of the mother, the researchers found that these children too were more likely to become criminals. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She loved nothing in the world except this woman’s son, wanted him alive more than anybody, but hadn’t the least bit of control over the predator that lived inside her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking that freeing an island from U.S. control could be done with passion and intellect. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I had control of my body again, but as I turned, another voice stopped me in the darkness. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

My stomach is all angry butterflies and nerves, and I feel like I’m going to lose what little control I have at any moment. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Is there nothing sacred in the game of basketball, Reggie? The refs have definitely lost control today.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The color maps of billions of minds, all controlled by an algorithm. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It takes every ounce of self control I have to stop myself and curtail my biological imperative. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The ghost’s face distorted in a silent scream of agony, but his eyes looked bored, even a little annoyed, as if the scream was just an automatic reflex he couldn’t control. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Her expression said a bit of damage control was in order. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, I have no control at the moment over what my days off will be. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had built up the strength in one of his little hands so that they attached a plastic arm over it and he could control almost real-feeling soft plastic fingers on the end. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lord Bacchus,” she said, trying to control the nervousness in her voice. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“And then there’s you. I didn’t know you this morning, and now I don’t really remember not knowing you. It’s all a little much. I feel out of control.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

We reach the top of the ridge and look down on the campsite, to see that the campfire, without anyone to watch it, has gotten out of control. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Father knows that they, not he, are the ones who control every one of us. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was, I realize now, something of an intervention, an attempt to show me which small parts of this process I could control. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He let her ride the combine with him and taught her to use the controls just like he’d done with her brothers. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was an odd sensation, having someone control my heartbeat with his eyes. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I wait inside the fifth- floor door until my breathing is back under control. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he addressed the lingering issues of future control and the necessity of having some sort of statement at hand to release to the world along with the first news of the explosion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Why should he and the others interrupt their already full schedules to build temporary structures in a far-off city where they would have little control over the final product? The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But as soon as Jeremiah took control, he spent most of the season’s profits in the bars of Lilongwe and Kasungu. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

But occasionally it left me—a detail person—feeling as if I’d lost control of the details. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Not that I expected they would, of course—I still had everything under control. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some kept the excess birds under control; some kept the rabbits from destroying his garden; others cleaned up the rats, mice, and voles. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I move away from the screen, intending to leave the control room behind me, to get some fresh air wherever I can. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He fought the nausea down, controlled it, turned Derek over and held his breath and used grass to clean him. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

But to keep the mineral trust under tribal control, no one could buy or sell headrights. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It briefly reviews the history of racialized social control in the United States, answering the basic question: How did we get here? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I can control a lot, but I cannot control this. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He or she must exert control, both physical and psychological, over everything that goes on in the shell. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He turned the sphere’s control dial, and it whirred into action. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t really think it would get so out of control,” he said, shifting to cross his other leg. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Even if we manage to kill Jeanine, could the Erudite be trusted not to attack and control us again? Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Just as Jim Crow, as a system of racial control, was dramatically different from slavery, mass incarceration is different from its predecessor. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And what can we do to deliberately start and control positive epidemics of our own? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Queen Bella finally caught up with the Prince, who stormed along the balcony clearly not yet in control. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The cold collar chafes my neck and makes the shivering even harder to control. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The National Association of Broadcasters shared CBS’s concerns about government control of radio. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He was gaining control of the situation again and was entering a phase of malevolent calm that Lillian was having difficulty translating. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My voice quavered, and I fought to control it. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The intention was to control the spruce budworm, but the following summer it was discovered that a problem worse than the budworm damage had been created. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“You don’t even control the climate or the law of gravity. And there are disease, pain, death—” O’Brien silenced him by a movement of the hand. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Her cheeks tightened and her mouth straightened, as though a net of muscles took control. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had gone to bed believing themselves free from white people’s control and commands about what they should do and be. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Her husband controlled her every move and kept her away from everyone she had once known, they said. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already in control of most of central Mexico, Teotihuacan was looking for new lands to dominate. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And the smell from him was a mixture of alcohol and urine and feces—David had heard his mother say that the tumor in his spine kept him from controlling himself from the waist down. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she picks up the remote control for the shelf radio, punches it, and the room fills up with graceful music, Mozart or something. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here there was a choke that couldn’t be controlled, so he decapitated buttercups while he cleared his ‘confounded throat’. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll want to hit the fence with enough speed to break through, but not enough for us to lose control and flip into the channel.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Bars can also be tougher for a power gymnast, which I definitely was, because power gymnasts are used to controlling the apparatus instead of letting it control them. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Quang-ha has taken control as the Most Valuable Player of apartment power spraying. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The system operates through our criminal justice institutions, but it functions more like a caste system than a system of crime control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It means that in principle, then, we are not ruled by mysterious, unpredictable forces, but that, on the contrary, we can in principle control everything by means of calculation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They could hear Matthew’s voice, cold and steady, never raised or out of control. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I had a burning desire to hit her in the mouth, but I controlled myself. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

To have positive liberty, he explained, is to take control of one’s own mind; to be liberated from irrational fears and beliefs, from addictions, superstitions and all other forms of self-coercion. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Well, your voice sounded . . .” Struggling for control, unhappy that he’d come, she said, “Honey, 1 would like it if you wouid sit here with me for a little while.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sometimes they may not decline steadily at all; at the Tipping Point, schools can lose control of their students, and family life can disintegrate all at once. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The look on his face was calm, in control. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Jim was concerned that one of Carabayllo’s major health problems might be TB, but Peruvian doctors insisted that the illness was well under control. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

We are controlled here by our confusion, far more than we know, and the American dream has therefore become something much more closely resembling a nightmare, on the private, domestic, and international levels. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The first period of hegemony was that of Chavin, which from about 700 b.c. to the dawn of the Christian era controlled the central coast of Peru and the adjacent mountains. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the late 1800s, long before the start of the Cold War, France took control of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, ruling the three countries as a colony known as French Indochina. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

This is a little more challenging because they have to keep control of their bodies, voices, and a ball. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The reason that most of us seem to have a consistent character is that most of us are really good at controlling our environment. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to be plunged into freezing water to regain control. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And every move I made on the intranet was closely monitored, controlled, and logged. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Ben said, trying to sound unconcerned and in control, but fear lay heavy on his voice. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be fighting his anger, controlling it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Awed by its magnificence, fearful of the supernatural powers controlled by its priesthood, local rulers subordinated themselves. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After the Haitian earthquake, hopes of quickly rebuilding the country were frustrated by a lack of control over money. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She controlled her face and whipped the fear from it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The scythe wiped her blade on a chamois cloth the same pale lavender as her robe, and that’s when Citra lost control. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

If this seems absurd, consider the situation in the citrus groves of California, where the world’s most famous and successful experiment in biological control was carried out in the 1880’s. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He reaches for the remote control and changes the channel. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A member of a long-established, wealthy family, he viewed the police department as his personal domain, and he was determined to keep it tightly under his control. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The soldiers were moving them up the mountain where they would be under total Khmer Rouge control, isolated from the world and cut off from all the escape routes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I told you that we had no control over a coin flip,” McCutchen said to his players. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was impressed by the organization of the union and its ability to control its membership, even in the face of such savage opposition. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at it this way: If there was only a set amount of food available at a given meal, we had to control the portions. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The profit in illegal tobacco is so high that the smuggling is almost impossible to control.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And, above all, I wanted to avoid trouble, for I feared that if I clashed with whites I would lose control of my emotions and spill out words that would be my sentence of death. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had managed to hold together the Republicans’ factions and keep the White House under the party's control. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Again the owl had difficulty in controlling his unbridled hilarity. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Unlike the rest of me, which seemed bent on doing whatever it wanted, my hair remained under my control. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It has a mandate from Congress to control human disease. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vola took the controls from him, and instantly the marionette seemed to become flesh and blood. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

"The men have lost control," he said through the uproar. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was having a hard time knowing how much Loo was in control of his actions, and how much he was just very, very young. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The blaze goes out of control, spreading to buildings onshore and thence to the Library, where it reduces a large number of scrolls to ashes. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

One of the cars lost control and crashed into a tree, metalwork crumpling against wood. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He made a deal with Spain that gave France control of the middle of North America, from New Orleans north along the Mississippi. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Their societies were destroyed by weapons their opponents could not control and did not even know they had. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

So it is with the science of biological control in its modern sense. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She’d done such a calculated job of using her aircraft as a battering ram that she was still able to use her flight controls afterward. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Nancy took a breath and gathered her thoughts into stillness, using her martial-arts training to get her breathing under control. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tobias and I stand there for a while, and I think I know what he’s thinking, because I’m thinking it too: How can something so small control so many people? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

As I leaned over to kiss Leon, he managed a smile in the half of his face still under his control. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The Comptroller of the Currency controls the national banking system. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The subjects would range from report writing to the use of force, from penal law to “standards of inmate behavior,” from tool and key control to drug awareness. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to him, a majority of the cancer victims who’d been prayed for were out whooping it up on the town, while their counterparts in the control group had shriveled up and died. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

But if mass incarceration is understood as a system of social control—specifically, racial control—then the system is a fantastic success. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was a rumbly edge to his voice, like he was struggling to keep his temper under control. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Emotionally, I was withdrawn from the objective world; my desires floated loosely within the walls of my consciousness, contained and controlled. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph started to whiz around in a figure eight when his tires slipped and the motorcycle tipped; He lost control and landed in icy, dirty water. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the statewide newsletter “NEWS from KLANSVILLE,” Klansmen learned of nefarious plots against whites such as fluoridation and gun control. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I knew how it was to be swept along on the tide of events, and to feel you had no control over any of it, not even your own fate. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

His reputation then fell victim to two nearly calamitous setbacks, one beyond his control and the other the product of his personal flair for perversity. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It takes longer for her to regain her control than she would like. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I was coming back from the control room. I heard a scream.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

There was real concern, particularly among Alice Paul’s committee members, that the police would not be able to practice adequate crowd control. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Yossarian, astounded, hauled her up into the plane and held her motionless on the floor in a double armlock while Hungry Joe radioed the control tower for permission to return to Rome. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The job, we heard over and over, amounted to care, custody, and control: We gave the orders, in accordance with the rules, and inmates were to follow them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those ships back there....What...? How—?” I broke off, trying to get my words together and my shivering under control. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Considering the design of this new system of control, it is astonishing that so many people labeled criminals still manage to care for and feed their children, hold together marriages, obtain employment, and start businesses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

If there was ever a time that I needed, for once, to control a conversation with him, it was now. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Even though I have way too many control issues to do drugs myself, I am starting to get a sense of why Owen likes to get stoned. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“We went back into the control room and stopped the simulation.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Alar is the cornerstone of sympathy. If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Others said with long hours and a little dedication, you could learn to control the weather...or even create an army. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Clay's announcement reflected simple geography: West Berlin floated like a tiny island in the sea of eastern Germany, a region completely controlled by the Soviets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He was telling,” Adam said patiently, and he had to control his breath, for a little fear had begun to press up against his stomach. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Weaver sat on the front with a lever to control the power to the locomotive’s electric motors. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

That brief exposure sets my teeth chattering beyond control. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But at this moment, with half of them mauled from the fight with Ishtar's lamassus, and Nergal bleeding from a dozen wounds, tempers were bubbling out of control. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She pushed the control column forward to lower the nose of her aircraft, and applied power to gain speed. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They’re out of control in my classroom, so I can just imagine them in a movie theater. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Holly struggled to keep her face under control. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Anya fully expected the sorcerer to control the fire as he had Ivan’s water, or hop over it on steps of air. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“He deals with it by being funny and outrageous. I look at my part as controlled energy. The character might seem out of control, but as the actor I’ve got to be totally in control.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

When Cardan found me, I knew that having control of him was the only path to having some control over the fate of my world. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Even when released from the system’s formal control, the stigma of criminality lingers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The controlled binding and unbinding of iron and oxygen—the cyclical rusting and unrusting of blood—allows effective oxygen delivery into tissues. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Merpeople use the Lobalug as a weapon and wizards have been known to extract its poison for use in potions, though this practice is strictly controlled. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, just keep control of yourself,” Mr. Crane said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A notable smell hung in the air of the makeshift Pathfinder control room. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were scared, on the very edge of control, at once trying to think of what was right to do and hating the scene about us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They know only what they’re taught, they see only the information that’s made available to them. And who controls all that? The government.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The only thing happening was a lot of radioing between mission control and the astronauts. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Woodhull was also criticized for her belief that women should have control over their reproductive and sexual lives. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The Met Lab scientists therefore had the time and leisure to ponder the greater implications of nuclear weaponry and its control. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

With the aid of the marigolds the roses flourished; in the control beds they were sickly and drooping. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Art thou ready?” he inquired again, hunching over the control panel. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“You’ll believe me or you won’t. I have no control over that, but there’s no anger here. Anger will get me killed faster than anything else, and I’m not ready to give up just yet.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned back in the seat, facing the front, and put his hands—still trembling— on the control wheel, his feet gently on the rudder pedals. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he shielded Matt from view until he was able to gain control of himself and go on. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Only this girl’s music controls me. I hate it. Please, sing some more.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I search the control panel for a button that will get us moving again, but Mabel says, "It's right here. We can press it whenever we want to." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I think I can control this terrible trio for a bit. Folks out there need all the help they can get, even if it does come from a skinny white girl.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The visual is up,” says one of the people at a desk in the control room. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Granny could no longer control herself, and she broke down and cried, “Oh, Lord, what will they do to my son!” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke gently, had a soft smile and an outwardly relaxed, controlled, and sort of scruffy demeanor. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “Call the turn now, Greg. They say the ship is finished. They don’t know what it is, but it’s finished. Let’s go, Greg. Let’s grab the controls right now.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

But sometimes it can spin out of control and produce antibodies that attack the body itself. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In general, Yellin, through adroit handling of the Brute Squad, was able to bring these bad fellows, eventually, under control. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Oxytocin and vasopressin control the third stage: attachment or long-term bonding. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I felt myself at the bridge of a great ship that I could not control because C.L.R. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The pain in his shoulder was quick and clean, but it continued to sting long after he’d gotten both throwing stars under control. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

From left: J. Robert Oppenheimer, newly appointed to head the Manhattan Project’s bomb design lab at Los Alamos; future Nobelist Glenn Seaborg, developing plutonium for the bomb program; and Lawrence inspect the machine’s control console. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I added my own exaggerated details of how many people had to restrain her, without any mention of how frightened I’d been, and how ashamed I’d felt when she lost control in front of everybody. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He realized that his friends were running along the riverbank, following him as he moved, the boat twirling clumsily out of control. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“If you wish the girl as your prize, you must prove you can control her. Not the other way around!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

His head dropped forward, his body lost all muscle control and sagged against the rocking chair. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eleanor Markey, 18, a senior at Bartlett High School and member of the student congress, lost control of her car on A Street Bridge at approximately 12:45 a.m. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

See, the camp has the ultimate magic climate control. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

When she had control of herself, he lifted her and stood her upon her feet. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But I tried to control myself this time. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“There is a Party slogan dealing with the control of the past,” he said. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When slaves rebelled, they often took gruesome revenge on their masters, only to face even more horrific reprisals when the owners and overseers regained control. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Hadn’t he said that before his father realized he was controlling him, Clancy had had some hand in making sure the program ran smoothly, and that the kids were treated well? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Like the world wasn’t spinning out of control. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“You’re sure? Could he have recently—oh, I see; okay, thanks. No, I have it under control.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

If he has his spinner and he watches it going round and round, he will be able to control himself and not make in his pants. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Horses were one reason the Lakota became a strong nation and controlled a large territory. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

By the time I buttoned my clothes and tucked in my tzitzis, I felt a bit more in control. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I felt really wobbly when he first got going, but as he picks up a good enough speed to throw a breeze our way, I appreciate the control I’m entrusting to him. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I don't have time to wipe my tears, or control my breathing, or pull my phone away from my ear. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Schmid recalled later that “for a second, I didn’t know what to do. Then I stopped Spassky’s clock, breaking the rules. But somehow I had to get that incredible situation under control.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They took control of the deer parks that had been cleared and maintained by Indigenous communities. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Yet another notable difference between Jim Crow and mass incarceration is that many African Americans seem to support the current system of control, while most believe the same could not be said of Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Who knows? If she gets control of her company, Patel Global’s a big buyer.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The government has control now. People are more aware, and they are rejecting these radical elements.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

And I just didn’t see that control in that kid. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was very difficult for Jamie to control his thoughts when he was tired, sleepy, and lying on his back. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, once all other factors are controlled for, it is clear that students from rural areas tend to do worse than average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Lawrence’s trolling for government funds took place against the backdrop of a fierce battle in Washington over legislation to bring atomic energy under civilian control. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She seemed to lose control of the oars, and her mouth fell open in shock. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes moisten and sting, and then I lose all control of my jaw and the chin-quake begins. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

She was so consumed that, driving on the highway, too fast, she rounded a curve and the Pinto swerved; she lost control, and then, at the last second, recovered. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was beyond his control, and though this was due to the natural parameters of his gift and no personal failing, it didn't spare him Minya’s judgment. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We’d tackled gun control, the meaning of intellectual property, the structure of American education, and the future of networked computing. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twelfth was the ‘control’ bar, one that we all knew well, usually a Cadbury’s Coffee Cream bar. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The term mass incarceration refers not only to the criminal justice system but also to the larger web of laws, rules, policies, and customs that control those labeled criminals both in and out of prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He pressed his hand to his chin to steady himself, but the obstinate trembling was difficult to control. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In contrast, once food can be stockpiled, a political elite can gain control of food produced by others, assert the right of taxation, escape the need to feed itself, and engage full-time in political activities. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I know, Robert, but we need to stop trying to change things that are not in our control.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to feel that I had finally found a place to stay, a place that was not so unstable or corrupt or controlling that I could actually belong there. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The balloon, named Chicago, was filled with 100,000 cubic feet of hydrogen and controlled by a tether connected to a winch. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Edna could not control a feeling which bordered upon complacency at her friend’s praise, even realizing, as she did, its true worth. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped off Mark’s body and got to his feet, then walked over to the controls and pressed something. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Then Frith said to El-ahrairah, ‘Prince Rabbit, if you cannot control your people, I shall find ways to control them. So mark what I say.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If one is continually surviving the worst that life can bring, one eventually ceases to be controlled by a fear of what life can bring; whatever it brings must be borne. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The emphasis in Canada is on small mammals, which are amazingly effective in the control of certain insects, especially those that live within the spongy soil of the forest floor. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Later that same day, email came in from Vivian herself, reporting that she was in love with Isaac Tupperman and she hoped Imogen would understand because there is no controlling the human heart. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Policing Egypt was a straightforward matter of controlling its primary transportation channel, the Nile. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

It is the finest radio he has ever laid hands on: an inclined control panel, magnetic tuning, big as an icebox. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Only in the integrated control programs developed by some California entomologists do we find anything comparable in this country. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I think if she doesn’t get too riled and keeps a cool head when they duel, she might. But she’s...wild. And unpredictable. She needs to learn to control her feelings—especially that impossible anger.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The result is a kind of contagion of panic, and before long the men leading the zebras and llamas are struggling to maintain control. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The chief’s hut looked like any other hut, there were no bureaucrats or public works, the chief redistributed most goods he received back to the commoners, and land was controlled by the community. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Together, they pulled him to the kitchen, where a large control panel sat behind a locked glass door. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then came the things I could disassemble, like the crew seats, several of the backup systems, and the control panels. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's such a struggle for me to control the nozzle that I can barely move. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

These principles are rooted in an understanding that any movement to end mass incarceration must deal with mass incarceration as a racial caste system, not as a system of crime control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Nothing has been officially scheduled at this point, but Plutarch, who’s calling the propo from the control room, must have his fingers crossed. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Or he’d lost control, slid across the centerline, and spun right into the path of a logging truck. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

But for the life of me, I could not figure out how to take back control. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The inappropriate force of his anger and lack of ability to control or channel it reflect a primary weakness of personality structure. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was uncomfortable with it, the business of being in control over an adult—or anybody, for that matter. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Famous hits like that had bought controlling interests in lots of Harlem’s bars and restaurants, or even bought some of them outright. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sunlight disappeared, the bloodbane seizing control of her mind again, and Celaena found herself before an army of the dead. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He had already found the way to control me—by threatening others. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

To accomplish this, the artist must control space within the framework of a unified composition. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or, This financier, who controls the world’s money markets?’ The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

But replace the word money in that sentence with tissue, and you’ve got precisely the logic many people use to argue against giving donors any control over their tissues.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

How could he be expected to control things? Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

More important, I’m inside of Brennar’s body, with complete control over his avatar. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But now they were seized with a fear that I was growing out of control. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“We'll talk later, but it’s under control. I’m using Annabeth's shield to keep an eye on things. The enemy withdrew at sunrise; not sure why. We’ve got a lookout at each bridge and tunnel.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I can’t imagine how you managed to get it under control so easily.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Trying to control your own destiny. It’s not just hard; it’s impossible.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

The lesson being that in life you control what you can. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The changes are made in orderly fashion, step by step, each step directed and controlled by an enzyme of so specialized a function that it does this one thing and nothing else. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Visiting him again was a risk, but I needed to do some damage control. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Early in July, the German army made a huge effort to take control of the front in this region. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The fantasy never got beyond that—I didn’t let it—and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn’t sobbing or out of control. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s had to control so many things to keep me safe in my bubble. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I know what it’s like to be scared of what you can barely control. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It had to do with making a place for fear as a way of controlling it. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Jason could simply control the wind and float down. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She fumbled for the remote control and paused the TV again. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The water was going every which way beneath them, and the wind was a storm blowing so bad, they could hardly control their wings. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Pa is always so much in control of himself that I have never seen him lose his temper. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the bombs were gone, Louie would yell “Bombs away!” and the pilot would take control again. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was run by the mob, he said, which controlled all the construction projects in the city, so before he could get a decent job, he had to run organized crime out of town. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Things are out of control. Things are out of hand. Not on my watch. No, sir. Not when I’m in charge.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

And this had given her, in the beginning of their marriage, the impression that she controlled him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Outside on the streets, an angry rally was going on, and the SIM were too busy with crowd control to notice a dragonfly helicopter flying by with a terrified mother and daughter inside. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“But I didn’t come here to upset you with news that’s beyond your control, Esteban. I came to speak with Alba, because I have a message for her from her grandmother.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

You lose control of your thigh muscles, so that you cannot support yourself standing. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Struggling for control with herself and her surroundings. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As the organ voices died, I saw a thin brown girl arise noiselessly with the rigid control of a modern dancer, high in the upper rows of the choir, and begin to sing a cappella. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two dozen controlled charges detonated in their chambers, driving two dozen alloy cylinders out of their mounts at over a thousand miles per hour. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Two years ago, the Box was attacked, and the guy in the control booth held hostage. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was something beyond the control of The Vigils. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celia can feel the heat rising up her neck and manages to control it enough that the flush is not noticeable in the candlelight. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It took nearly three hours to attach emergency controls to the engines, and the Yorktown then limped into port. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

On the other hand the control agencies tend to deny flatly and categorically that such losses have occurred, or that they are of any importance if they have. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“This might come as a surprise to you, but you can’t control what I do!” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He is not a maniac anymore; he is perfectly controlled, perfectly poised. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I should have known, then, that he would gladly trade thousands of GD memories—lives—for control of the experiments. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In practice no one power ever controls the whole of the disputed area. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When he reached a challenge he couldn’t handle, like winning at Joust, he could just hand control of his avatar off to one of his underlings. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

With war approaching, the entire service was being transferred to Navy control. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The momentum of the argument abruptly broke from his control. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose we had a magic gravity machine—a device with which we could control the Earth’s gravity, perhaps by turning a dial. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that moment, I became aware of how I had put myself in this unimaginably dire situation—this man now had control of my body; even my own hands had become useless to me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Your mother is on the scene, and everything is under control. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the Confederates attempted to take control of Kentucky, a border state between North and South, Garfield was assigned to help push them out. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

This was very humiliating to me, but I couldn’t control myself. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most important fact to keep in mind, however, is that debates about prison statistics typically ignore a key fact: most people who are under state supervision and control are not in prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“In practice, however, it was the first irreversible step by which a presidency ran out of control.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“He’s being picked up in the morning by animal control.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Because of cases like these, a growing number of activists—ethicists, lawyers, doctors, and patients —are arguing cases and pushing for new regulations that would grant people the right to control their tissues. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But it is an ominous sign of the direction that a society of people so vulnerable to sexual control might take. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then an image flashes in my mind, of Captain Smith ready to lose control of his anger, then of him taking a deep breath, focusing, calming, devising a plan. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t seem to relax unless they had total control. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was supposed to be a professional, in control. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some rabbits say he controls the weather, because the wind, the damp and the dew are friends and instruments to rabbits against their enemies. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wants so much to believe he is in control that losing his grip only enrages him more. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Neither of them had the power to fly—not like Jason, who could control the wind, or Frank, who could turn into a winged animal. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Notably, however, even after such positive experiences, most family members remain committed to maintaining tight control over who knows and who does not know about the status of their loved one. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then, desperately trying to control himself, he recollected how he had worked his father’s fields. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hate that so much is out of my control. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to be monitoring you from here, from the small control room. We’ll see how useful I am tonight, though, with all this snow obscuring the cameras.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I read how, entering India—half a billion deeply religious brown people—the British white man, by 1759, through promises, trickery and manipulations, controlled much of India through Great Britain’s East India Company. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn was still so little he thought you could control things like that. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Even the earliest Mesopotamian states exercised centralized control of their economies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His only other friend, Festus the dragon, had been reduced to a figurehead when his control disk had gotten destroyed on their last adventure. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I stood there, trying to move so my dad wouldn’t see me, but my feet had control, and they wouldn’t let me move. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

This was the first real moment of exposure, one Kaz would have no control over. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The situation had been out of his control...fate, as Ms. Bethune had said. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He turned the squelch control down and listened for the hiss of static, but there was nothing. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Hatsue settled into missing her husband and learned the art of waiting over an extended period of time—a deliberately controlled hysteria that was something like what Ishmael Chambers felt watching her in the courtroom. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She dropped to her knees on the terrace, head spinning as more moths died, more holes melting from her vision, and the rest kept on reeling, out of her control. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She glances up at me, her forehead scrunching like I’m a fly who just landed on her control panel. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thus, woodpeckers are the primary control of the Engelmann spruce beetle, reducing its populations from 45 to 98 per cent and are important in the control of the codling moth in apple orchards. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

People in both parties have attributed the shift to the rise of social issues, like gun control and same-sex marriage, which have tilted many working-class voters rightward and upper-income voters toward the left. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Potato insects are escaping chemical control in many sections of the United States. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He was standing at Ancient Roman mission control. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She takes control of the cart and pushes us away. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Octavian would govern the west, including the parts of Gaul that had been under Mark Antony’s control. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

At his touch I lost all hope of controlling myself. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s got three restraints on each arm, and a tube that can dispense a knockout drug just in case he loses control. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

John Tookey showed off this new New York craze called break dancing but went spinning out of control into a group of girls, who toppled like skittles. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It looked more like an airplane cockpit than a car, and Milton was at the controls, Milton was flying his last Cadillac over the Detroit River. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“But I shall not kill you,” he continued in a low, eerily controlled voice. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They truthfully said they hadn’t begun it, they had no control over it—the idea was national, spontaneous, unorganized, and leaderiess. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the people in the other car fumbled out, I tried to recover my control and said loudly and too graciously, “Gracias, senor.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The PIH-er called back with the name of an international entity called the Green Light Committee, established to control the distribution of a vaccine for meningitis. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I muted my audio so Aech wouldn’t hear, then took several deep breaths until I got myself under control again. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I began to feel embarrassed that I hadn't asserted more control during the encounter. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And now Mini was shaking it like a remote control that had stopped working. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But she was helpless to do anything about it, helpless to control it, and ex-hausted by the conversation in the rowboat. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was this Rain, or some stranger who had taken control of her body? Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He felt it rise within him: that anger, that fury and rage that he tried so hard to control. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He had to keep wiping the sweat off his hands as he controlled the screen functions of the workpad. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I was too tired to try to control my brain’s wandering fingers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

So I dumped the rest of the pills down the can and decided to take control. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

But how, I wondered, were either of us ever going to learn to control ourselves if we couldn’t practice? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A collision with a small boulder could have sent the spacecraft tumbling wildly out of control, its antenna unable to lock on the Earth, its data lost forever. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The committee also recommended more adequate controls to ensure that chemicals were adequately tested under field as well as laboratory conditions before being put on the market. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

What matters most is who gets swept into this system of control and then ushered into an undercaste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t know what happened. It was like . . . something was controlling my body. I’m sorry. . . .” The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

Rick said, “Do you think you can control it?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later, coming home late one night, he lost control of his car, and that was that. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He had to prepare his brain, he had to get his mind controlled and safe from their efforts, so that they could not break him. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

All the security men were equipped with radio microphones, and in the front row, Mrs. Jones had control. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

On one page she saw a list of headings: exchange controls, rationing, the mass evacuation of large towns, the conscription of labor. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I realize now,” one prisoner said after the experiment was over, “that no matter how together I thought I was inside my head, my prisoner behavior was often less under my control than I realized.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know the answer, of course I do: I need to deny them the power to control me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

His sentences usually had at least one break of faulty breath control, so that, often, his emphasized words, instead of rising, sank. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

And with them she could control the rope. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She switched on the detector and then took a floppy disk from her pocket and slipped it into the computer that controlled the Cave. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there came a point where the control and the fear were gone and his brain cried out in an aching triumph. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“There are some things that not even the captain can control,” says the skull with the rose. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

My answer: Mr. Worthington, I understand that you do not control Chuck and Jasper. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He, too, breathed again, struggling now with his own breath to control it, to keep it from sounding so loud in his throat that it would awaken her. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the night of Thursday, May 5, officials of the National Cordage Company, a trust that controlled 80 percent of America’s rope production, placed itself in receivership. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The crown spared him for two nights before he returns to England for his own damage control tour. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Not just my skin, but my brain and muscle control continue to improve. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He felt gears grinding beneath the controls, but nothing would engage. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She did her best, working two jobs and attempting to teach us right from wrong, but there were forces beyond her control. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

At the Empire and its iron-fisted control over every aspect of our lives. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Addressing Briony’s problems with kind words and caresses would have restored a sense of control. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Like I’m taking control of something, even if I don’t have it all figured out yet. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I need ... to show you some of the controls soon.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

As far back as 3500 B.C., the Sumerians, the original inhabitants of this area, mastered irrigation and flood control to create a fertile oasis amid the sandy plains of what is now Iraq. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

Although there is a large literature on the classification and natural history of spiders, it is scattered and fragmentary and deals not at all with their value as an agent of biological control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But we have very little control over our human weaknesses, & this applies also to Fern & the hundreds of thousands of other people including ourselves—for we all have weaknesses. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prison jobs became civil service jobs; prisons within the states became more standardized and centrally controlled; and unions in a few states, particularly New York and California, became important players. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the concluding decades of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries the idea of microbial control was slowly taking form. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The present conclusion of experts is that “housefly control has escaped insecticidal techniques and once more must be based on general sanitation.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Even after finding Archer, she’d been so alone in this, muddling through the words, struggling to control the Vision, with no one to help her understand what was happening, what it meant. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Clarkson and his committee had, in effect, seized control of the government. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

John convinces the white judge who controls the town to allow him to open a school for black children. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

That genome tells cells when to grow and divide and makes sure they do their jobs, whether that’s controlling your heartbeat or helping your brain understand the words on this page. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“In memory. Very well, then. We, the Party, control all records, and we control all memories. Then we control the past, do we not?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

You just didn't end up homeless, hung over, sleeping in your car with all your worldly possessions because you had control of your life. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The new control measures undertaken in 1949 were carefully planned and few people would have supposed any harm could result. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Having borrowed too much, when the rush to buy organic food slowed down, Gene Kahn was forced to sell control of Cascadian to Welch’s. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The federal court system has effectively immunized the current system from challenges on the grounds of racial bias, much as earlier systems of control were protected and endorsed by the U.S. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“What in the world are you doing? Turn off that—” Rachel scooped up her remote control and shut off the music. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He bought controlling interest in Baltimore’s legendary but struggling Pimlico Racecourse and set out to restore its glory. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m okay for a bit,” Alec said, standing back to scan the instruments and screens of the control panel. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There’s no controlling information once it’s in Windy’s head. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The scrappy puppy in the back seat, however, hops into the pilot's lap and starts gnawing on the control stick! Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

By then Hamilton had the gaff and boom under control and I pulled down the jib. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Time for pest control,” I muttered to myself. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My head is starting to ache and my control is gone and my thoughts run into words. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Percy remembered how confident she’d acted when they first met—taking control of the situation with the gorgons and ushering him to safety. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The money kept rolling in and I was balling out of control. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In McCleskey, the Supreme Court demonstrated that it is once again in protection mode—firmly committed to the prevailing system of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

An inglorious way to begin an adventure, perhaps, but then we can't control when or how adventure may find us. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Shame is a word people use to try to control you.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Melander himself had run into difficulty with the San Jose scale, for some years satisfactorily controlled by spraying with lime sulfur. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was stunning news, after three months of hand-wringing and damage control at the highest levels of the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“This is just what I am, what I have always been. I try to control it, but sometimes the beast inside me takes over and I am overcome by the need to feed.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

His nervousness had subsided months earlier; he knew he no longer had control over his destiny. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

When the operative told her that he was looking to buy a house in the vicinity, she mentioned that William Hale “controlled everything” in these parts. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The population under correctional control—on probation or parole—has tripled as well, an increase driven almost entirely by drug convictions and other nonviolent crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

For once, Flora agreed with the lamp: things were out of control. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The moment any authority figure challenged Cade's control over things, the game was on. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“A guaranteed—and equal—place in whatever government forms after Erudite is destroyed, and full control over Erudite data after the attack. Clearly—” “What are you going to do with the Erudite data?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Solar Federation was controlled by a group of “priests,” who are described in Part II of the song, titled “The Temples of Syrinx.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He presses a hand control on the arm of the chair and wheels out of the room. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

By this point I'd seen him lose control tons of times, but it had never been as bad as it was that day. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I chose smaller pieces, hoping my weight could control the lurch. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I was against the ropes in my battle with fear, and I lost my bearing, my pace count, my control. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The combined campaign failed, but Cyrene was not returned to Alexandria’s full control for decades. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“I regret to have to tell you this,” he continued, “but the rest of you will need to wait here in Lobuje with Harold until we get the situation under control.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a matter of life and death, and you talk about controlling myself.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Adults were trying to control it all, and none of them knew what was happening. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t take too much satisfaction from this, though, because I knew he was probably already kicking one of his underlings out of a haptic chair so he could take control of a new avatar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The log-in process completed and I took control of a Happy Helpdesk avatar, a cookie-cutter Ken doll that I used to take tech-support calls. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It happens, however, that criminals and thugs tend to be undesirable warriors To begin with, they are often difficult to control. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

While every other district has now wrested control from the Capitol, 2 remains in its pocket. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

If we hope to end this system of control, we cannot be satisfied with a handful of reforms. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The car veered out of control and plunged into a ditch. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seems so much in control that I forget he is not quite fourteen. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Look," he said, leaning toward the camera, "I've always respected your privacy and independence. I never tried to pry into your life, never tried to control you. I've been really good about that, right?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the Voice that controlled her mother had urged her on relentlessly. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Making matters still more difficult, the golden river of corn is controlled by a tiny number of corporations. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

This thing could go way out of control. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edmund’s father seized the king’s treasury, and the lords contended for control. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Put him in which prison? In this Nigeria where he controlled everything?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The glider was one of Fathers earlier models, without the rudder controls. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sure didn’t feel safer or more in control of my life. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

At last he managed to control himself, and sat with his great eyes fixed on Harry in an expression of watery adoration. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It did take a little adjusting to learn to drive with my fake leg, because my ankle doesn’t flex and I have to control the gas and brake pressure by using my knee and thigh. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

It was hogwash, he said, that this case had anything to do with preserving local control of school districts. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cole grabbed a deep breath to control himself. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

If they didn’t act now, blacks would soon control the city. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“We designed them that way so that the PSFs wouldn’t be able to accidentally pick up on a signal being transmitted from them. I promise, you’re in control here, Ruby.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It seemed to Oppenheimer that the opportunity to keep atomic weapons under control via international agreement was slipping away, perhaps never to be recovered. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

On the morning Mom escorted us to the bus stop, I could barely control my emotions. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Even so, El Patron found it hard to control the Illegals. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, if the tapes do get out, you’ll have to deal with consequences completely out of your control. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

What was needed now was control, absolute control. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The “control of nature” is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The situation was quite out of their control. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He reasoned that the resulting chaos in TB control would reach catastrophic levels, and finally private foundations would have to step in and deal with the prisons. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

His spine was damaged in two places, the concussion had paralyzed his right arm and resulted in a loss of control over his bladder and rectum. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each player controls a knight armed with a lance. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I wipe tears from my cheeks with the heels of my hands and struggle to control my shuddering breaths. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But when she danced, it was with a feral grace, a controlled wildness that had been preserved secretly in her body. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, the earlier system of racialized social control—slavery—had also been regarded as final, sane, and permanent by its supporters. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Only thing you can control is how hard you try,” he replies. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“If he could make every single boy in Prentisstown a man by his own meaning, then he’s God, ain’t he? He’s created all of us and is in complete control.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

In fact, their only images have been produced under carefully controlled laboratory conditions that tell us more about the experimenter than they do about art. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many thousands of gallons of chemicals have been discharged along roadsides in the name of ragweed control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t seem like we have much control over whatever bubbles to the surface from our unconscious. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The low hum and faint beeps of controls keep a steady rhythm. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then she couldn’t stop gagging, over and over, like she wasn’t in control of her body. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I almost laugh at how much control Britt-Marie has right now. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Toomer could not control them, could not silence one of them, though he screamed and lashed out at all of them within reach of his voice or his hand. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lost control of the trolley,” Harry gasped, clutching his ribs as he got up. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The mathematics to model a trait controlled by five or seven genes, Fisher discovered, was not all that complex. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The Voice had never relinquished control while they were on the island. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Alec asked as he was already positioning himself at the controls. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The program took control of Parzival’s movements, synching them up with the music, and all four of my limbs were transformed into undulating cosine waves. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In my experience, people who have been incarcerated rarely have difficulty identifying the parallels between these systems of social control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

David Korn, vice provost for research at Harvard University, argues that giving patients control over their tissues is shortsighted. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I can see the time on the control panel. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

By wearing long pants and long skirts she was in control of how her body would be perceived. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Though the Aztecs lost control of Mexico, like the Mayans their descendants are part of today’s societies in Mexico and the US. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The women involved may have wanted to support temperance and other reform movements, but ultimately men controlled the finances. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“But how . . .” “I have magic,” I said quickly, “and this is my familiar. I can control him.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

When it finally went out, Frank got his panic under control. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Unlike early Soviet space capsules, which were automated, American spacecraft required experienced pilots at the controls in case of malfunctions. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Taking control is something he does unconsciously, reflexively. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had all of the power, and none of the control—all of the pain, and none of the benefits. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Yet drastic action was suddenly taken against them, under the end-justifies-the-means philosophy that has too long directed the control divisions of our Department of Agriculture. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“How come the guys inside the control room didn’t flip a switch to shut down the book sorter when they saw Haley doing her cardio cha-cha-cha on it?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I figured I could maybe control the water. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was a single pilot at the controls, and something on his instrumentation must have told him that the door was open because he suddenly twisted around. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But he had taught her how to control her body: her arms, her hands, her fingers, her feet and legs. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He used to say that most people marry because they want to control another person, and he never wanted to be controlled. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It may be more comforting to believe what the newspapers say, that the drop in crime was due to brilliant policing and clever gun control and a surging economy. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He stared at the controls, trying to think, but it was no good. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It’s something she can savor and control, this feeling of having been wronged by the world. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Now, Nico was able to control his heart rate, along with his desire to knee his father in the groin and run away. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It flipped me out, knowing I lost control of myself with the entire school watching. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Hutu rebels fought for control of the capital, Bujumbura, where Generose and her family lived. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“The balcony was originally meant for people to watch squash players,” said Woods, “but now it was filled with control equipment and read-out circuits glowing and winking.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The controlled release of atomic power has been demonstrated for the first time in history,” Fermi said of his experiment. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things between us had officially spiraled out of control. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They sideswiped a taxi and sent it spinning almost out of control. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard enough when the girl was in full control of her brain. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Unable to control his temper, Doha grabbed a tangerine from the fruit stand and threw it at the woman’s back, screaming “Don’t you hit my sister!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Altogether too exciting to the Congolese, and disinclined to let White control the board, preferring the counsel and company of Black. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gangs of Hungarian prisoners seemed to control the camp—and the guards did nothing. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’s also learned to control the drool that used to run down his neck. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Down below, in the engineering rooms, where mechanical systems controlled the ship, they found more bodies. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

As I told Dali-wonga, separate development was a spurious solution to a problem that whites had no idea how to control. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to know why they were here. Do they control the draccus?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He actually liked sitting for hours in conference rooms talking about international TB control. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

That soured his first meeting with Oppenheimer, who was invited to the Oval Office on October 25, 1945, to discuss legislation for domestic control of the atom. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Soon, the cutting started and the first of the defeated kites whirled out of control. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that if I didn’t get my weight under control, I would probably die of sloth before I found the egg. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In fact, the system is primarily concerned with the perpetual control and marginalization of the dispossessed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Definitely. You have really good control over the ball.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Euclid controls the gate to the castle of knowledge, where a mortar and a cannon are being fired to illustrate the path of projectiles. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The pilot was all business now, his hands working the controls, easing the throttle, settling the plane the last bit down to the lake. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

She would have given anything to be back at Camp Half-Blood, where the weather was controlled even in the winter. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Goebbels had his sights set on far more than controlling the German press, however. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There are important differences, to be sure, among mass incarceration, Jim Crow, and slavery—the three major racialized systems of control adopted in the United States to date. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She set the control of the blanket at the highest notch, which soon made Billy’s bed hot enough to bake bread in. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The runs all failed; Mandela lost control of the ball once, and twice it was stolen by Santos defenders. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

In his bunker, Oppenheimer leaned against a wooden beam, glancing back and forth from the sky to the scientists at the control panels. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

By means of a number of outflow valves, Soulzeren could control thrust in different directions—forward, backward, side to side. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In his mind, he has tried and failed to communicate his plight, and his only conclusion is that he must have somehow offended his superiors in the control tower. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Every time Mrs. Richardson looked at Izzy, that feeling of things spiraling out of control coiled around her again, like a muscle she didn’t know how to unclench. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You will never be able to control me.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Such controlled fires helped to clear space in the forest for growing corn and other crops. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Initial results showed a few key raised “islands” in control of a vast network of communication and interaction covering 200 square miles, as large as many early states. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But when Klava tried to tip the plane forward to eject them, the control surfaces were so badly burned that they didn’t react. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Throughout our history, there have been African Americans who, for a variety of reasons, have defended or been complicit with the prevailing system of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

One was a racketeer who controlled a crime syndicate worth $15 million a year. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Hazel had told her what it was like to control the Mist, and Piper had been surprised by how much it sounded like using charmspeak. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Halfway to Doña Zena’s house, I gave up trying to control them. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

At some point, he had to take control. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Another officer locked and unlocked the gates that controlled inmate movement off the galleries. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He needed to get control of Cleopatra’s wealth to pay his troops in Rome, who were threatening to revolt. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Send him to the control room. We’ll want a sentient being there to monitor things and, as I understand it, he used to work there.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

‘Rules are rules. As a praetor, you should understand that. This distribution centre is one of our most important bases. We have to control access. I can’t make exceptions, especially not for my family.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It’s more of a control thing than a real interest. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was a recipe for political chaos that even the indomitable Washington would have been hard-pressed to control. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“No. Well, yes. But it was like this reaction I had. Like this thing I couldn’t control.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Muamer controlled the ball and tried to make a move down the sideline as the Thirteens’ defenders moved in. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Fern,” he said gently, “you will have to learn to control yourself.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Traffic problems at the judgment pavilion. Double overtime for the staff. I used to be a rich god, Percy Jackson. I control all the precious metals under the earth. But my expenses!” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She lofted a corner kick into the center to Maya, who controlled it and passed it along the ground to Victor. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, he was my boy, but I had never seen him this out of control before. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

A monster came up from the water and his horses, terrified beyond even his firm control, ran away. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He can run his mouth all he wants to, but someone needs to exercise a little control. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t we have control over whether or not this works?” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I try to stay in control of my breathing. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I saw him on the monitors when I was in the control room. I’m sorry, Christina.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had to take part in this, or risk losing control completely. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I could only concentrate on controlling the boat. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Zane had been watching the man work the balloon’s controls ever since they’d climbed inside the basket, and he was good at it. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Moreover, he saw that the Italian military forces, particularly those he would have to use, were controlled by those who had reason to fear the Pope’s greatness. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

We recognized no loose ends, everything could be controlled by our science. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used to add, with a smirk that unprofane people can’t control when venturing into profanity, “and wash as far as possible, then wash possible.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s already in control of where this conversation is going, but I don’t know how to take it back. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I can almost see him struggling, trying to control himself in front of the reporters and the Red Cross, but it’s too late. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The keeper controlled the water’s release from the hopper, and used it to produce a sensation of drowning. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss McDaniels picks up the remote control next to her folder and presses play. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“You need to be able to control it, otherwise it’ll always control you,” he said. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The use of chlordane for grasshopper control on the high western plains has been followed by the death of many stream fish. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The police officers, I realize now, are here for crowd control. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If I lost control, two things were certain to happen. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was a dream! Can you control what you dream about, Hermione?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The neat rows reminded me of the braids Mama put in my hair at night to keep what she called my wild hair under control. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

My father tried hard to shelter us, but he couldn't control what we heard at school or on the street. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

For one thing, an eight-oared racing shell—powered by unusually large and physically powerful men or women—is commanded, controlled, and directed by the smallest and least powerful person in the boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And by the time I get my breathing under control and go up to the third floor, it's almost two. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

How am I supposed to control the Mist? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Once he regained control of the sugar island, he could use the Louisiana Territory to feed and supply all his sugar plan-tations in the Caribbean, and reap the rewards in white gold. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

"Then your anger was skillfully controlled. It had eloquence. Why was that?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theoretically the stroke oar always rows at the rate and with the degree of power called for by the coxswain, but in the end it is the stroke who ultimately controls these things. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Users are supposed to be able to control the NeuroLink with their minds. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As soon as the Nazis came to power, they took control of the public schools, called National Schools. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

To Oppenheimer, Truman’s refusal to even try to forge a genuine partnership with the Soviet Union for the control of nuclear weapons was a tragic lost opportunity. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But if her parents are like these Candor, simulation controlled and armed, there is nothing she can do for them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a hysterical reaction, but she couldn’t seem to control herself. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this frenzied atmosphere, the inchoate ideas of Bush and Conant about international control made barely a ripple. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“There was no need to alarm you, Chris. Everything was under control. There was nothing you could have done anyway.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

It was about the size of a TV remote control. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But I’m not allowed to get up at that hour, so I had to control my curiosity until quarter to seven. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Newton’s supposed discovery only imposed itself on the scientific community because Newton acquired ‘control over the social institutions of experimental authority’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He maintains control over the troop by staring. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a couple of days, no, within a matter of hours, a process was moving fast and well beyond her control. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As a peace offering, Mark Antony transferred several of King Herod’s cities in Judea to Cleopatra’s control. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“You ditched your friend—your only friend—because he didn’t want to help you control the school.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Each station transmitted data on the craft’s position and speed back to Mercury control, which bounced the data to the Goddard computers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Bombing was done only by the Taliban, sometimes by remote control, but other times by suicide bombers. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was around the same time that the piano’s close relative the organ also mastered the art of volume control, thanks to a device called a ‘ratchet swell pedal’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Everyone had to be abovedecks or busy fighting to control the flooding. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Cole didn’t like the idea of being under the control of anybody or anything. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I was first and foremost an African nationalist fighting for our emancipation from minority rule and the right to control our own destiny. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home, I pick at my dinner and listen to my parents talk about the Finches in controlled, even voices that have been carefully chosen so as not to upset me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As rumors continued to spread that labor unions, churches, and organizations such as the League of Women Voters were under Communist control, the American public became increasingly alarmed. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s controlled. We'd use drip torches like Cray-Cray uses at the bonfire. Just burn out the old, and get ready for the new.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to have lost control of his expression. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Billy is spastic in time, has no control over where he is going next, and the trips aren’t necessarily fun. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just a month ago Marrero had been found at the foot of a cliff, having supposedly lost control of his car. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited to see if he would get all cocky, let his ego take control of his tongue. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The worst thing I had ever felt in my life had taken control of me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to teach her healthy eating habits. And, besides, this was about control.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She turned one knob then the next, trying to find the right controls. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You need to study war, punk. Hostages. You take somebody to control somebody else.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

At that time, Malawi was under the control of Hastings Kamuzu Banda, a powerful dictator who ruled the country for more than thirty years. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Desperate for the race and knowing that Riddle was in control, Howard was game to any of Vanderbilt’s suggestions. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The portrait communicated everything I wanted to be—controlled, intelligent, and beyond the fear. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The idea that Frank should be able to control the spirits? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control if it is to address meaningfully the racial realities of our time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Somehow I managed to control the bike, but my dream of flying vanished into the shadows with the deer. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even know I was crushing it, but I guess I had to hold on to something while my world veered out of control. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She maintained far more control of her wealth and affairs than any woman Nhamo knew. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arsinoe and Achillas soon became locked in a power struggle themselves, going behind each other’s backs to bribe the troops and gain control. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

There’s no threat in the present—I am in control of the body, and as long as I am in control of the body, I will not allow it to hurt itself. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I hear my father asking me, “What makes you think you have the right to shoot someone?” as we fought our way to the control room in Dauntless headquarters. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The streets were full of hurrying people who walked as though they had been wound up and were directed by some unseen control. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice was carefully controlled, but Harry could sense his excitement. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Shut up!” roared the Corporal, trying to keep his voice under control. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

There are possibilities, too, that insects of medical importance might be controlled by sterilization. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They may bubble up from the unconscious—from behind a locked door inside of our brain—but just because something is outside of awareness doesn’t mean it’s outside of control. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“One day you might be unable to control your tongue after all, and I’d land back in that ridiculous story again. No thank you very much!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Did he have magical appendages there that allowed him to control water? Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I never seen no control tower on New World,” I say. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Her voice was once again in control of itself. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Seth had his legs and was driving him to the mat, controlling him in every way. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Somehow, I don't know how, I kept my emotions under control. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

This dream might be special, but it was still a dream and, as such, hers to control. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Dad gets it back under control almost right away. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What is it with this class? They lose control over food.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then I yanked the driver's seat and control panel out of the trailer. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben could just sail away, and she’d be left behind, without the boat, without any control at all. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He talked nonstop, out of control, in a mix of Igbo and English, like soft meat and thorny bones. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I control nothing,” the man in the grey suit says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It choked me up, and I had a great deal of difficulty controlling my emotions until we were out in the corridor again. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The tension between her lack of control and her attempt to suppress it is horrible. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Leo tore his eyes away from the controls. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I realized that I was the one in control of my being a loser. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Time is something I cannot control,” she says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As time passed, I began to understand that no one in our community could control, stop, direct, or quiet the white people who surrounded us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They accept as a given the fact that once any critical incident is in motion, there is nothing that can be done to stop or control it. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe that was true; or maybe it was more a matter of needing to have strict control over the behavior of those who held life-and-death power over other men. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At very first he had felt a shyness, but that was gone now, and the sense of triumph at destroying Abra’s control made him laugh. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If they succeeded first,” Compton recalled Lawrence’s warning, “they would have in their hands the control of the world.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Jacob tried to keep his face under control, but his jaw was quivering, and his eyes were like cups of water. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The scepter could supposedly control the dead, and it definitely gave off bad vibes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It recommended specific changes that would ensure patients’ rights to control how their tissues were used. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Akin to this first trait is the second, an ever-present, poorly controlled rage—easily triggered by any feeling of being tricked, slighted, or labeled inferior by others. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

His brow furrows as he describes the perilous condition of Denmark and relates how Fortinbras seized control after Claudius was killed. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

We need an effective system of crime prevention and control in our communities, but that is not what the current system is. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The powerjack was heavier than it looked, but its controls were simple. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The response to a mine accident was something outside the control of even the Capitol. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

So much so that she must publicly remind her people that I am not in control. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The great contemporary achievement of modern medicine is the technology for controlling and preventing bacterial infection, but this did not fall into our laps with the appearance of penicillin and the sulfonamides. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Exposition Company’s shrinking war chest had driven its relationship with the National Commission to a new low, with Director-General Davis arguing that any new federal money should be controlled by his commission. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Efforts were made to control it but they were largely fruitless until, in the late 1940’s, the chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides offered new weapons. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She almost wishes her father were there, as she is beginning to understand why he had always been so adamant about building up her strength and control. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Reality control,” they called it; in Newspeak, “doublethink.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

To say that an Orgota government fell means, of course, only that one group of Commensals replaced another group of Commensals in the controlling offices of the Thirty-Three. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Calm down,” a voice says, like I can control how calm I feel when I’m being hog-tied like an animal and caged in preparation for slaughter. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Within four days of running out of food, he'll barely be able to stand up, let alone control a rover. Plus, his mental faculties will rapidly decline. He'd have a hard time even staying awake." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piper wondered if the room’s temperature controls were broken, because suddenly she couldn’t stop shaking. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was trying to live up to this image of what he thought a husband should be, dominant, controlling. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A moment ago, it was empty, but I know the rules of simulations and how to control them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I have come to understand, however, that the illusion of perfect control can amount to the same thing. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The poor victims cannot properly control their muscles. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

When it actually hit me that I was the winner and I would have the opportunity to become a millionaire by simply sinking a foul shot, I couldn’t control myself. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

First grade was when I discovered eye control; with my seeing I could shrink the teacher down to a height of one inch, gesticulating and mouthing on the horizon. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Similarly, the president was in charge of picking the judge, picking the jury, controlling the evidence, and controlling the rules. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He says softly, “You might not think I do, but I get it. We all have our demons. But you can’t let the dark stuff control you.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

This means pharmaceutical companies, scientists, and universities control what research can be done on those genes, and how much resulting therapies and diagnostic tests will cost. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

By the time the fire was under control, my sister's closet and our bathroom were burned to a crisp. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

At 095.00, I will have the strength to stay in control. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Jam controlled her face as he looked at her. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She had to bring Clara with her on marketing days, but though her stepsister now controlled the purse, she did little else to restrict her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Asserting that he had been instrumental in writing it, Welles wanted control of its future use. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“But Octavian is the one we have to worry about. In my dagger blade, I saw him taking control of the Roman crowd. I’m not sure Reyna can stop him.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And now came something he had no control over. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Mutual also forged links with religious leaders in Durham that allowed them to control the most powerful of all black institutions: the church. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There had been circumstances then and there were circumstances now; there were things beyond anyone’s control. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her words cracked as her voice, always so under control, split and fractured like ice. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Wild Boy had so taken control that I was losing the ability to express myself with the conventions of spoken language. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At that my temper broke, and I must stare at the ice-knife which lay close by my hand, not looking at him and not replying until I had controlled my anger. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Adams’s ever-vibrating vanities were now, true enough, under some measure of control. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“In boxes. They’re stacked on top of each other with just enough space in between for us to fit our hands in. Everything is controlled. The ventilation, the humidity. And they keep it dark.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

We went quickly, stumbling, but somehow in control of ourselves. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he could help me figure out how to control my abilities. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The cycle would then spiral out of control until both nations completely obliterated each other. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Something else was eating at Gregor now that he had his temper under control. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because it's still mounted near the control panel, and the rover is on its side. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was strong and fleshy and brutal, it was full of intelligence and a sort of controlled passion before which he felt himself helpless; but it was tired. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

According to the skeptics, Maya society was divided into a small number of blocs, each controlled by a dominant city, each striving to achieve some semblance of empire. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Typical Connectives and, before, then after, once, while, when The language gives writers a second way of controlling the order in which two events are mentioned. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In this city, “control” means needles and serums and seeing without seeing; it means simulations, like the one that almost made me kill Tris, or the one that made the Dauntless into an army. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

And though they might not be shackled or whipped like slaves, their lives were completely controlled by the terrifying overseers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

If it’s in my head, I control it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I trusted you,” he shouted at Lupin, his voice wavering out of control, “and all the time you’ve been his friend!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Dylan does a better job controlling his emotions and gives the chief a firm handshake. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

As we extract new things of value from it, we also keep discovering parts of the activity that seem in need of better control, more efficiency, less unpredictability. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to my room and lost control. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It was almost as if two distinct people struggled for control of the same body. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Andrew jiggled the control knobs on the console. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Most likely the control monkeys. inhaled it into their lungs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In death there was no control, no anger, no one to blame, no choices, no nothing. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Dimly, Powell was aware that the robot was making a friendly gesture, perhaps to quiet some lingering remorse in forcibly replacing the humans at the controls of the station. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Who would have dreamed, though, that the easily willed minutiae of their daily actions could amass so — solidifying, mountainous, beyond their control? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

From all he’d seen, mean people scared the easiest when things weren’t in their control. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

And then, when she was sending Tobias away: Send him to the control room. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I remember, but it’s like I was watching myself do things. I couldn’t control it.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Making Egypt pay, therefore, depended on keeping up the infrastructure and social institutions that had already existed for millennia, such as irrigation, flood control, and conscripted labor. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Besides increasing advisors, he had authorized the spraying of highly toxic Agent Orange and other defoliants to destroy enemy cover in the jungle, as well as rice crops in areas controlled by the Viet Cong. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Things felt as if they were accelerating, about to spin out of control. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

This last, of course, excludes those dismal slave parties, whipped and controlled and dominated, given by ogreish professional hostesses. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

What he means is that people have a powerful, even extraordinary, ability to direct their attention to control it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Heldred eventually controlled the foothills around the Shalda. This meant that he controlled the mountains themselves. They started to plant crops, their nomadic lifestyle was abandoned, and they slowly began to—” “Get to the point?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

All three women knew that if too much heavy ice formed on the wings, the plane would become impossible to control. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Inevitably a new system of racialized social control will emerge—one that we cannot foresee, just as the current system of mass incarceration was not predicted by anyone thirty years ago. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When he spoke, his voice was low and controlled. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

—So you’re going to let it control your actions and ruin your life? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In control, nothing,” he said, holding on to the dashboard. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

My hands began to work the controls without my even having to think about it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Gale says no one wanted to look bad by admitting they couldn’t control us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Each night Prime Minister Vorster and Minister of Police Kruger went on radio to reassure panic-stricken whites that the situation in the ghettos would soon be brought under control. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was very controlled and intent about what he was doing, as if following a time- honored procedure. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was trying desperately to keep himself under control. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to look up at the sky, to gaze into the sun’s brilliant white-gold eye, but she had no control over her movements, and she had arrived at one of the windows. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The outcome was that Parliament established a militia to be under the control of lords lieutenant appointed by Parliament, not by the King. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I feel it when I sit beside her on the sofa, the remote control firmly within her grasp. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fell into bed exhausted and only felt the full burden of her grief in dreams, which, determined as she was, she could not control. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She flexed her wrists and wrestled the control column forward again. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Rarely do their makers claim to be restoring or rebuilding anything from the past; and they are never in full control of the results. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Many Cambodians are trekking on foot to the north, crossing dangerous mined fields and Khmer Rouge control zones, with little food and water, to go to Thailand. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It devoted itself to developing protective vaccines, and it concentrated on basic research into ways to control lethal microorganisms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She keeps interfering in a negative and controlling way. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Finally, perhaps the most important difference between almonds and acorns is that bitterness is controlled by a single dominant gene in almonds but appears to be controlled by many genes in oaks. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z